Let's hear it for ActBlue!

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16. your bookkeeping sucks; 0.0395 % is tiny

If you sent $1000 to Beto, he didn't get $1000. His campaign has to process that donation to meet the requirements of the law. It costs money to do that.

Also, from before the election:

That puts O'Rourke's tally at nearly $40 million — an astonishing sum not just for a challenger but for any Senate candidate anywhere, ever.

Donations flowing through ActBlue alone account for $25.4 million of that — another eye-popping sum that shows the power of harvesting donations from hundreds of thousands of low-dollar supporters, rather than having to rely on the relative few who are willing to cut a check for $2,700, the current legal cap.

"I don't know the last Democrat who's raised that much money," said Jennifer Duffy, managing editor at the Cook Political Report and a top Senate campaign handicapper.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018-elections/2018/10/02/actblue-donors-alone-sent-25-million-beto-orourke-costliest-senate-race-2018

The bandwidth, the reach, the processing of donations, the web site, and the report to the candidate provided by ActBlue are cheap at 0.0395 %.