As a former government contractor...I find this quite surprising. It's hard to find decent government contractors and even then it's usually just a few teams versus a whole company.
Knowing the government, the data from a web form is faxed to an office where someone retypes it into an IBM AS/400 mainframe green-screen by hand, omitting the ');
While I'm sure the Koch brothers will spend a large sum, the $900m isn't going to come from just them, that's the total goal of their political network, to be sourced from hundreds or thousands of donors. Their network spent nearly $400m during the 2012 elections.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 36.6 ms ] threadKnowing the government, the data from a web form is faxed to an office where someone retypes it into an IBM AS/400 mainframe green-screen by hand, omitting the ');
http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/964/15951210964/15951210964.pdf
[1] http://alicebobandmallory.com/articles/2010/09/23/did-little... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1721494
http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/964/15951210964/15951210964.pdf