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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not sure who I am voting for - most likely Clinton- but I really like Sanders and trust that he would not do anything illegal or unethical. He from all accounts is a good and ethical man. [/quote]

It's not him, nor is it his campaign. It's more likely people using different email addresses and slight variations on their names to contribute multiple times in excess amounts. Could be Republicans, for all we know. [/quote]

If you look at the report, it is mostly trivial amounts. The first excessive contribution is over by $50. The second by $38.[/quote]

Except for the $23 million.  [/quote]

The $23 million consists of contributions that are reported as totals given by an individual rather than as an itemized list of contributions from those individuals. It is nothing more than a reporting issue.[/quote]

It's a criticial reporting issue.  The means by which the FEC and presumably the candidate makes sure that people are giving more than they are permitted under law.  And someone who makes campaign finance reform the linchpin of their campaign should have this down.[/quote]

The total of contributions made by each individual was reported. Excess donations would be revealed by that number. I agree that it should have been done correctly and, if for some reason Sanders is unable to provide the itemized data or the itemized contributions don't add up to the reported totals, those are bigger problems. But, at this stage there is no reason to suspect this is anything more than a mistake in how the data was formatted for the report.
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I haven't reviewed the report, but if a contributor gave less than $200 in the aggregate, the campaign can just report that amount as "unitemized."  So if he has $23M in unitemized contributions, that might be totally legitimate if he has $23M in contributors who have given less than $200.  I would be surprised if the campaign voluntarily reported every single individual contribution, even those that did not aggregate to $200.  It's possible they did though (again, I haven't looked at the report myself).

Anyway, there are political reporting firms that handle this stuff.  I would be surprised if a major presidential campaign screwed this up-- it's not like Sanders is a nobody. He's a U.S. Senator!  If it's some poor sclubb sitting in a room doing the reports then I wouldn't be surprised that there are errors, but then why is Sanders cutting corners on reporting when he's the one talking about campaign finance reform![/quote]

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