Prediction markets take plenty of bets on the outcome of elections.

Some betters might be cheating.

Campaign staffers are awfully tempted to turn their insider knowledge into money.

I'm Scott Simon.

I'm Ayesha Roscoe, and this is up first from NPR News.

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So stay with us. We have the news you need to start your weekend. Americans have bet more than a billion dollars on elections so far.

Some of those traders are using insider information.

The largest prediction market, Kaushi, says it's trying to

stop political insiders from profiting with a new program. And bears Luke Garrett joins us. Luke,

thanks for being with us. Good morning. Thanks for having me. A few months back, you reported that

some campaign staffers made thousands of dollars on insider trades. So what do we know? For one, we know that

dozens of campaign staffers are still trying to bet on their own candidates. And remember,

this is during an active midterm election year. These are people who are on campaign pay

rules and are trying to profit on their own races. We know this because CalSheap has a new surveillance

program that uses federal election commission data to track these staffers.

So far, the prediction market says it has successfully blocked dozens of campaign staffers from making these potential insider trades.

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