Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against fundraising platform ActBlue, alleging that the Democrat platform has engaged in sweeping donor fraud. The lawsuit seeks more than $1 million in damages.
Internal investigations from Paxton’s office reveal that ActBlue lied about its donor vetting policies and operations.
“Among other misrepresentations, despite knowing — and representing to regulators — that resuming its acceptance of gift cards would open the door to election influence ‘from high-risk/sanctioned countries’ and enable foreign nationals and other ineligible persons to make unlawful contributions to federal and state candidates, ActBlue went back to accepting them,” the filing reads.
“This was not an oversight,” it continues. “It was a continuation of ActBlue’s long-standing pattern and practice of tolerating rampant donor fraud on its platform so long as the fraud stayed below the radar of regulators.”
The filing asserts that ActBlue “lies, deceiving eligible donors and campaigns alike, when it induces them to utilize its platform by claiming it is free and safe from donor fraud—when ActBlue not only knows otherwise it actively facilitates the making of fraudulent donations.”
“The radical left has relied on ActBlue as a way to funnel foreign donations and dark money into their political campaigns to subvert our laws and compromise the integrity of our elections,” Paxton said in a statement. “ActBlue lied to Congress and to the American people, and I will ensure justice is served. It has blatantly ignored state law that prohibits deceptive practices, and it must pay for its illegal conduct. Fair elections are the foundation of our democracy, and I will work to ensure no illegal campaign donation flies under the radar.”
