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A screenshot of Democraticnationalcommittee.org, a website run by Ronald Peltier of South Hadley that is not affiliated with the Democratic party.

Until this year, Donald Peltier's chief mark on the political landscape was his establishment of fake websites, with attached donation pages, for the Republican and Democratic National Committees.

Now, he has gone official.

Peltier, a South Hadley man whose quick domain name trigger finger and arguably fraudulent use of those websites made him the subject of an ABC News investigation in 2012, has registered to run for state Senate in the Hampshire, Franklin and Worcester District -- the same seat occupied by State Senate President Stan Rosenberg.

It is unclear how serious Peltier's ambitions are. Reached by phone at his South Hadley home, Peltier refused to answer questions, saying he was "busy painting" and directing calls to a separate campaign phone number. A call to that line has not been returned.

But his June 6 filing with the state's Office of Campaign and Political Finance is the latest chapter in Peltier's bizarre and largely digital history of political engagement.

Peltier appears to run highly unofficial sites using the names of the RNC, DNC, Congressman Richard Neal and Hillary Clinton's campaign.

And the RNC and DNC sites feature donation pages, which send money to Democrats Moving America Forward and Conservative Media Group -- organizations which are not affiliated with either party and are not registered with the Federal Election Commission.

It was those donation pages which drew the attention of ABC News Reporter Brian Ross in 2012. Peltier called the police on Ross for trespassing when the reporter approached his home, but confirmed that he intended on keeping the donations, ABC News reported at the time. Peltier responded by describing the sites as "parody" and mocking Ross as lacking a sense of humor.

The DNC declined to comment on the record for this story. Neal's office and the RNC did not immediately return requests for comment.

The sites are still active and have been updated for the 2016 election season, with the DNC page featuring a photograph of Clinton and Bernie Sanders and the RNC page showing a photo of Donald Trump. Peltier's personal campaign page, Donald2016.org, also has some potentially confusing synergy with the 2016 race, given the more famous Donald's status as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

Both sites include commentary on political issues -- though some of it is decidedly off message for the Democratic and Republican parties. On his personal webpage, Peltier describes himself as a conservative who believes in limited government.

"The Republican National Committee does not support conervatives (sic) within the party," Republicannationalcommittee.org says. "Conservative views on immigration, border security, 2nd amendment rights, religion, women's life termination rights, marriage, Obama care, taxation, etc are not in line with the values of the Republican National Committee."

And the DNC site describes global warming as a "natural variation" in climate, contrary to the mainstream Democratic position that climate change is due to human activities.

Peltier's ownership of Electhillaryclinton.org and richardneal.org is confirmed by registration information, according to a domain search. The owners of the RNC and DNC pages are not publicly listed, but evidence points to Peltier's involvement; his personal websites link to the pages, the Clinton site redirects to the DNC page and Peltier confirmed his ownership to Ross in 2012.

The Federal Election Commission said it has not closed any complaints on Peltier, though it could not confirm whether there were any open cases against him. Impersonating political candidates or parties to solicit donations is a violation of federal law; in 2004, the FEC fined a woman $47,414.15 for misrepresenting her website as being affiliated with the Republican party.

Peltier's web development hobby is not limited to national political figures. He also appears to own an unofficial website for Laura Hutchinson, a morning anchor for News 8 in Connecticut who previously worked for 22 News.

"Oh my god," Hutchinson said when told of the site during a phone interview. "I definitely did not know about this."

Peltier worked as an oil delivery driver for Fuel Services Inc. of South Hadley in 2012, but was fired after the ABC News story broke, the Republican reported at the time.