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Charities Criticize Online Fund-Raising Contest by Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Company is coming under fire for the way it conducted an online contest to award millions of dollars to 100 charities.

At least three nonprofit groups — Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the Marijuana Policy Project and an anti-abortion group, Justice for All— say they believe that Chase disqualified them over concerns about associating its name with their missions.

The groups say that until Chase made changes to the contest, they appeared to be among the top 100 vote-getters.

Paul Higgins: Just shows that you have to be careful when ceding control to voting systems - you need to make sure your comfortable with the outcomes being determined by someone else because the transparency of these systems will cause a backlash if you try and interfere after the fact