Campaign staffers keep trying to bet on races despite push to curb insider trading
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Kalshi's FEC monitoring program was announced in May, days after NPR reported that some campaign staffers had made thousands of dollars using insider polling information on rival prediction markets Polymarket and PredictIt.

Polymarket , which is Kalshi's top rival, declined an interview request about its efforts to stop political insider trading. Instead, the company sent a statement saying that it has made nearly 100 referrals across all its markets to law enforcement, including one that resulted in an arrest in the U.S.

"Polymarket's market integrity framework includes trade monitoring, on-chain transparency, reporting channels, and escalation processes to detect, review, and respond to suspicious activity across all markets, including political markets," a Polymarket spokesperson wrote.

PredictIt, a lesser-known political prediction market, also declined an interview request for this story.

FEC data is "not a panacea"

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