How to support ActBlue? Leave a tip when you donate.

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Actblue's Regina Wallace Jones was on Rachel Maddow last night.

She said that ActBlue is supported by the tips left by generous donors.

I thought you all might like to know that.

[DFW]

1. I don't

I donate directly, by check, to candidates and causes I wish to donate to. If I donate through Act Blue, the candidate receives, with luck, 92% to 92.5% of my donation. The rest goes to Act Blue (3.95%) and the credit card companies. If there is some big ticket, high stakes race, and the Democratic candidate raises $10 million, $800,000 raised through Act Blue never gets to the candidate. In a tight race, that could determine the victor. I'm sure Act Blue and Visa do just fine without my irritating contributions adding to their accounting burden.

[SupportSanity]

2. I like ActBlue because I can use PayPal. I really don't like giving my credit card info out.

I've gotten more than one notice that my account information on more than one website had been hacked.
So using PayPal is a level of security for me. It's at a cost, but it's worth it.

[DFW]

3. Years ago, I used Act Blue as well

This was before I even found out their fee schedule.

They kept checking the “make it monthly” box without my consent. When I pointed this out, and said it wasn’t fair, they replied that I was an idiot for not fixing it every time myself. I decided they would have one less idiot to contend with, and haven’t touched them since. I read that they boasted a billion (or was it ten billion?) in turnover. If it’s one billion, they made $39.5 million. It it’s ten billion, they made $395 million. I hope they had a little of that left over for Planned Parenthood, etc.