Fight Voter Fraud, Inc. Interviews Rapini

by Sharon Rondeau

(May 2, 2025) — In her fifth broadcast on the OBBM Network, Fight Voter Fraud, Inc. CEO and Founder Linda Synkowicz hosted commentator and cybersecurity expert Dominic Rapini about their continuing work to identify and act on evidence of voter fraud.

During the introduction to the show, the announcer stated Fight Voter Fraud, based in Connecticut but having expanded nationally, is currently looking into 280,000 suspected cases of ballot fraud. The organization’s trademark is, “One Vote for One Legal Voter.”

The Post & Email has interviewed Synkowicz and Rapini and recently began publishing, with Rapini’s permission, his commentaries on the current state of American politics, particularly in Connecticut.

He has conducted investigations into election integrity and wrote about his motivation for coming out of retirement to found Queralt, Inc. to create a system capable of providing online security without the need for passwords.

Rapini was FVF chairman of the board prior to running for Connecticut Secretary of the State in 2022 against now-incumbent Stephanie Thomas (D). Having retired from Apple Computers after a 26-year career, in March Rapini expounded on discoveries he made in 2018 of “repetitive” donations from Connecticut citizens to “ActBlue,” a Democrat political fundraising organization catering to “small-dollar donors.”

“As a nonprofit, we’re driven by the belief that our democracy works better when more people participate in civic life and when our campaigns and nonprofits are powered by the people they serve,” ActBlue states on its “About” page. “That’s why we’ve built a powerful online fundraising platform for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot, progressive organizations, and nonprofits. Our tools make it possible for anyone to build a grassroots campaign or movement and give donors an easy and secure way to support their favorite candidates and causes.”

On April 24, President Trump issued a memorandum to the secretary of the treasury, the U.S. attorney general and the “counsel to the president” to probe “unlawful ‘straw donor’ and foreign contributions in American elections,” specifically identifying ActBlue as an entity to be scrutinized.

“…there is evidence to suggest that foreign nationals are seeking to misuse online fundraising platforms to improperly influence American elections,” the directive states.  “A recent House of Representatives investigation revealed that a platform named ActBlue had in recent years detected at least 22 ‘significant fraud campaigns’, nearly half of which had a foreign nexus.  During a 30-day window during the 2024 campaign, the platform detected 237 donations from foreign IP addresses using prepaid cards, indicating that this activity remains a pressing concern.”

ActBlue acknowledges it is under investigation, though it characterizes the probe as “targeting” and is soliciting donations for its legal defense.

In 2018, Rapini ran against Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who he said had raised $11 million for his re-election campaign. “What? How does a guy from Connecticut raise that kind of money?” Rapini asked.

Downloading donation data from the FEC and utilizing spreadsheets, he said, he found “things that didn’t add up.”

“I sorted by the names of donors,” he said. “It’s in Excel, so — I spend my life in Excel and I know how to do that…When I sorted by name, I would start to see certain patterns. So I would see a donor who, when you look at the dates right in Excel, I would see 30 donations in a month. I’d see five donations in the course of a day, and they were small ones, like $1.25, $3.00, $4.00, $5.00.”

“It’s one thing to see a monthly donation of $10.00 for 12 months, but to see $10.00 three times a day or 30 times in a month is really hard to explain, and it doesn’t pass the smell test,” he added.

“…There’s rules and regulations on how much people can donate,” Synkowicz responded. “There’s federal laws; there’s state laws; and as you go into explaining this, it seems to circumvent a lot of different things.”

“The governing laws here are federal laws for elections,” Rapini said. “At that time, it was a maximum of $2,700 per cycle which you can do up to three times…back in that day. Now it’s $2,900 with inflation, I guess.

“I kind-of didn’t know what to do with that data back then; I was really busy; I was working full-time at Apple at the time, so I kind-of tucked it away,” he continued. “And then about three years ago, some people I knew in Wisconsin were doing similar research in identifying multiple donors like this across many different candidates…and it made me go back and revisit my data that I looked at, 18 donors that came up for me as looking very suspicious. And so I came up with these donors that, as an aggregate, donated, I think it was $1.9 million over the last couple years.”

The money was distributed among “150,000 donations,” Rapini said. “One retired schoolteacher in North Haven, CT, according to the FEC, gave $324,000, and I don’t remember her exact number, but it was like 12,000 donations.”

Rapini related that when he went to meet the woman and her husband to ask if they authorized the donations, they denied making them but distrustfully shooed him away.

Rapini made more headway with five others from the group of 18 he flagged as questionable.

“I did successfully get the five other donors and presented them with their FEC data; I actually printed it out on paper — literally, reams and reams of paper — and on the screen right now, you’ll see one of those donors, a Yale professor…I looked at his donations. The name ‘Yale’ was misspelled; they added a ‘z’ to it…I can’t imagine anybody who works for Yale misspelling ‘Yale,’ let alone a PhD. So that was a red flag.”

The interview continues here.