BELMAR — PolitiCheck.com, a new and much easier method for making and receiving campaign contributions online, is now cleared for use in New Jersey.

    In an advisory opinion issued yesterday, the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission determined that online contributions by credit card or electronic check payment may be made through PolitiCheck.com in accordance with NJELEC regulations.  The Commission noted that the electronic check contribution alternative offered by PolitiCheck.com “is the technological equivalent of a paper check and may serve the salutary purpose of promoting contributor participation in the political process.”  Click here to read Advisory Opinion 02-2006 in its entirety.

    PolitiCheck.com makes it easy for citizens to contribute online even in small amounts to the candidates and organizations of their choice.  PolitiCheck.com members can save their credit card or electronic check information, as well as their employer and other information required to be gathered by candidates, to their secure PolitiCheck.com acccount, and transmit it with a click of the mouse.  PolitiCheck.com memberships are free to contributors.

    PolitiCheck.com also provides an array of online campaign fundraising tools that let candidates and political organizations take maximum advantage of the convenience the internet offers potential contributors.  For example, in addition to using high-tech features like blast email solicitations for contributions, candidates that subscribe to PolitiCheck can even improve the effectiveness of their traditional fundraising mailings by including a line that lets their supporters know that contributions can be made online via PolitiCheck.com.  Time-strapped potential contributors are more likely to respond to fundraising solicitations if they can avoid handwriting a check and filling out a lengthy contributor informatoin card, and instead give simply with a few keystrokes. 

   ”PolitiCheck’s greatest promise lies in its potential for democratizing the political contribution process,” said Kenneth E. Pringle, the founder of InfoLoop, LLC, which owns PolitiCheck.com. “By making it cost-effective for candidates to solicit contributions even in small amounts, and convenient for ordinary citizens to give that way, PolitiCheck can lessen the importance of contributions from special interests,” he said. “This Advisory Opinion now clears the way for us to offer PolitiCheck.com, and perhap to begin changing the political landscape in the Garden State.”

   After beta testing during the 2006 election cycle, InfoLoop plans to begin actively marketing PolitiCheck.com to candidates and political organizations in New Jersey in time for the 2007 election season.

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