FEC Seeks to Ban Prechecked Recurring Donation Boxes

The FEC voted unanimously to recommend that Congress bar political campaigns from guiding donors by default into recurring contributions through prechecked boxes, a month after a New York Times investigation showed that Donald Trump’s political operation had steered huge numbers of unwitting supporters into repeated donations through that tactic, the New York Times reports.

The FEC is often stymied by partisanship but this practice is so egregious the vote was unanimous.