Step 4: order the receipts from lowest to highest. 

Step 5: pick any one of the hundreds (thousands) of names that appear dozens of times in a row recorded as having given just 1 penny. 

Step 6: paste that persons name into the FEC search and click “individual contributions” on the the left when the search returns. 

Step 7: watch in amazement as records return showing that person is supposed to have given hundreds or thousands or even tens of thousands of times since 2019. 

 Something happened in 2018 for Democrats with ACTBLUE. 
I don’t know what it was, probably was some kind of AI system, but it enabled them to DOUBLE individual donations in the 2018 election cycle. 
Whatever it was, Republicans quickly caught up with their own programming sometime in 2019 when they launched WINRED.