[Web Clearinghouse for campaign donations -- Currently Democrats and Republicans donate vast amounts of money to their parties to cancel out the media noise from the opposing party. My friend Sam Galler ~smgaller@gmail.com , who is super nice, massively connected, and a graduate student at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, proposed that we build a website that acts as a clearinghouse for donations to political campaigns in the US. If you donate to the Democratic Party it cancels out the donations to the Republican Party. The resulting bag of saved money goes to charity. He has the connections to get this website, if built, on frontline media, and would love to find people who want to work with him on it. I think this could save millions of dollars, and is a #lowhangingfruit #govtech #good jcole@mit.edu 858-740-6970If anyone wants to work with me on this larger project: http://ideajoin.jacobcole.net I would be super delighted! jcole@mit.edu](mailto:jcole@mit.edu) 858-740-6970