Reference desk

Legal & FEC reference

Educational only. Not legal advice. See FEC and qualified counsel for your situation.

US federal law restricts financial contributions and certain expenditures by foreign nationals in connection with US elections. Uncompensated volunteer activity such as phone banking is often distinguished from prohibited contributions, provided volunteers follow campaign training and do not make donations they are not permitted to make.

Each campaign sets its own volunteer agreement, scripts, and compliance checkpoints. Always use the campaign’s official portal and recorded training before making calls. Where a script disagrees with anything on this site, follow the script.

We don’t pay volunteers. We don’t collect donations. We don’t resell voter file data. We don’t store ID documents after a verification decision is made. We don’t share your forum activity with campaigns.