FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20463

MEMORANDUM

TO: 

FROM: 

DATE: 

SUBJECT: 

The Commission 

Office of the Commission Secretary VFV

August 11, 2022

AO 2022-14 (Google LLC) (21) Comments

on Agenda Doc. No. 22-37-A

Attached are 21 comments on AO 2022-14 (Google LLC) on

Agenda Doc. No. 22-37-A.

Attachment
From: jessica cossentine

To: AO

Subject: "AO 2022-14.

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 5:46:55 PM

Do not allow politicians, political crap, their propaganda and advertising to be allowed into personal email. Please,

have some respect for thinking individuals.

Jessica Cossentine
From: Jessica Cossentine

To: AO

Subject: "AO 2022-14.

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 5:44:36 PM

Please do not allow political campaign propaganda to me dumped in my email box. It's bad enough with all the

other commercial/advertising I have to go through.

Stop politicians/political crap in it's tracks. I hate having to see it on TV, billboards, and any other form of

communication and especially don't let them push it on me through personal email.

Jess Cossentine
From: James Sachs

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 in rebuttal of mosinformation campaigns and in support of measureable reality

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 9:31:41 PM

To whom it may concernIn as brief a way as possible, I would like to state that any finding against google filtering practices against the

complainant party would expose both my personal and work email traffic to a massive quantity of extreme

misinformation and foreign malicious actors acting on behalf of the same parties.

If the complainant party utilized truthful information, or any information that bore any semblance to reality, they

would not find themselves filtered out of the information ecosystem.

Thank you for you time and consideration,

Jim Sachs
From: Terrence Benbow

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 3:55:03 PM

I mark most political campaign emails as spam. I want to keep this ability. So, if I mark something as spam, I don't

want Google to honor my designation.

Bill Mitchell
From: Kimberly Miller

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 7:21:09 PM

I want NO unsolicited emails sent to my personal gmail account or any personal accounts (social media) Political or

otherwise!!

I do not want it in Spam, I do not want it.

If any person doesn't get enough unsolicited Political advertising on television, in the mail or in front of a grocery or

post office etc. they are actively uninterested.

Anyone wanting to donate Politically or otherwise, should do their own research into what they are giving money to.

Thank you.

Kimberly Miller

gmail account holder
From: Jim Sachs

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 8:25:25 PM

Regarding Google's request to allow more political emails through instead of blocking them as spam - which for the

most part they are.

As with most people, dealing with spam is a significant issue and keeping it out of our respective email boxes is a

constant effort. Re this specific request, I vote to keep the current restrictions in-place.

I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat, but a pure Independent. However, I believe that the constant yammering

by the Republican's, Trumpists, and the Right Wing groups and their constant efforts to bombard people with

disinformation and 'contribution' requests is not only irritating in the extreme, but I believe many times approaches

being very problematic, and possibly illegal.

I look to the FEC to provide some sanity in this environment, especially in light of the Republican's efforts to label

this as effectively 'in-kind' corporate contributions to the Democrats. Frankly, I believe the current Republican

Party, many of its adherents, the Right Wing aligned media, and just about every Right Wing organization will try

anything to win, regardless of its moral or other issues.

Please do not allow the spam restrictions that Google uses to filter much of this political 'stuff' and relegate to the

folder as spam - as it should be.

Sincerely,

James F. Sachs
From: Jim Ennis

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14.

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 2:56:31 PM

Hello,

I do not wish to get an increase in unsolicited messages from any source, political or commercial and don't want

Google to modify their current spam settings.
From: Linda Crooks

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 3:28:44 PM

I use Gmail almost exclusively, and do NOT want political campaign messages sent to my Inbox. Please tackle the

major problem of illegal campaign contributions first; then, consider keeping political campaign contribution

messages routed to Spam (where they belong).
From: Jacques Paquin

To: AO

Subject: Google"s AO 2022-14 request

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 3:52:26 PM

I do not believe Google should have to exempt anyone from SPAM filtering. If there are characteristics that SPAM

messages typically have, that's what their algorithms should be identifying and keeping OUT of my inbox. If

legitimate groups want to avoid having their emails designated as SPAM perhaps they should hire consultants who

are experts in this field rather than bullying the business that provides me with a valuable service.

Since the algorithm should be treating ALL email alike, political, non-political, business or whatever, there should

be no question as to whether more Democrat messages getting through vs GOP messages is a donation in kind. If a

group chooses to abuse their email lists and get labelled a SPAMMER it should not mean they get to bully a

business into accepting those SPAMs and sending them on through to me.

Jacques Paquin

Victor NY
From: Gary McDonald

To: AO

Subject: Google"s request: "AO 2022-14.

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 3:43:42 PM

Don't do this, bad idea, all political stuff should stay SPAM,

Regards

Gary
From: Anna Martin

To: AO

Subject: Reference AO 2022-14

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 5:38:21 PM

Dear Google- Please add me to the list of Gmail happy consumers who want no part of scam/spam emails bypassing

my Spam folder just so the republicans party can try to hoodwink- or flat out wear down- people into donating to

them.
From: Brian Flores

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 4:48:27 PM

I am firmly against allowing Google to exempt unsolicited bulk political fundraising emails from their spam filters. I

do not buy the assertions that the spam filters exercise political bias in filtering a greater percentage of Republicansent emails, or that this constitutes illegal in-kind contributions by Google to Democratic candidates. If Republicans

are seeing greater percentages of their emails being filtered relative to their Democratic counterparts, then it’s

incumbent upon them to stop sending emails that that are inherently sensationalist and spammy and that run afoul of

the filters.

I do not want more unsolicited email; I want less of it. The FEC needs to stay out of this dispute, and not shepherd

solutions that result in more work and aggravation for members of the American public.

Brian Flores
From:

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 6:50:45 PM

I don’t care which party or independent candidates are involved, I do not support Election related

SPAM being placed in my INBOX. Especially if it is related to fund raising. Things are ugly enough and

I don’t need this garbage filling my inbox, especially when many ignore unsubscribe requests. PLEASE

don’t do this to us. We citizens have rights too.

Robert Masters
From: Chris

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 9:11:26 PM

I do NOT want more spam and I absolutely do not want more political spam.

Regulate campaign finance without adding more waste to our email.

Sent from my iPad
From: Barrett Welch

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 10:56:56 PM

Absolutely no to the above matter.
From: Jan Connelly

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 4:02:49 PM

This is equivalent to the Do Not Call List. I do not want political calls to my phone and I

certainly do not want them in my inbox!

Please deny this request.

Jan Connelly
From: Sherry Weindorf

To: AO

Subject: Do not exempt

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 8:59:36 PM

Do not exempt political email from spam filters.

Sent from my iPhone
From: Frank Hanrahan

To: AO

Subject: Google"s request: "AO 2022-14."

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 5:13:26 PM

I request all spam go to my spam folder.

Best Regards,

Frank Hanrahan

Costa Mesa, CA. 92626

From: Casey

To: AO

Subject: unsolicited email from eligible candidates to bypass gmail"s spam filters.

Date: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 6:34:47 PM

Please do not allow any political emails to bypass spam filters. One, if I want to hear from a

campaign I will sign up for their emails. Two, this is an invitation for misinformation, scams,

and phishing on an even greater scale and will not serve any positive purpose and will only

serve to further erode Americans' trust in an already decaying political environment. Three, it

would allow greater access to certain groups of the population by bad actors only looking to

radicalize and create a greater number of domestic terrorists. Here I'm referencing not only

groups within our borders but also other countries that have already shown their ability to

destabilise our system but also directly influence our election process. Four, no one (not even

a political group of any stripe) should be allowed greater access to me than any corporate

entity that frankly has too much access already. Sincerely, Casey DeFoer

Sent from Proton Mail mobile
From: Marilyn Meyers

To: AO

Subject: Junk mail

Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022 3:25:14 AM

Why would you ruin your reputation by sending junk mail to your subscribers? I’m sure a fair number of us would

suddenly block you!!!!!