The GOP has landed a major win only three months before the mid-term elections.
I bring up the election because this is something that will have a direct impact on the election.
The FEC has approved the Google plan that will allow campaign emails to bypass spam filters.
Level Playing Ground
Reports surfaced earlier this year that Republican campaign emails were landing in spam folders far more often than Democrat emails.
When the issue was brought to light, the GOP obviously had a major stink.
It appeared that Gmail programming was purposely rerouting the Republican emails to help Democrats.
That will no longer be the case.
The FEC voted 4-1 for Google to install a new pilot program that will now allow all campaign emails to bypass the usual spam filtering on Gmail.
Democratic Commissioner Dara Lindenbaum did vote in favor of the new program, but she did have hesitations.
She stated, “I don’t want to [support this], and it’s for the same reasons all the commenters don’t want to, but I think the law and commissioner regulations and commission precedent permits this.
“I also don’t want to hamstring innovation and pilot programs.
“So if Google does move forward with this program, I hope it will reduce and not expand spam and increase best practices for bulk senders.”
Commissioner Elen Weintraub, a Democrat, voted against the measure because political communities and ONLY political communities would benefit from this.
Well, if the filters were not sending more GOP emails to the spam filters than Democrat emails, we would not be having this problem in the first place.
The study found that 59.3 percent more emails from conservative candidates than liberals were getting rerouted to spam folders.
I guess that is what happens when your programming is set to use conservative trigger words for spam.
Source: Breitbart
