Sentences with phrase «because voter data»

«When we first talked about this project with a Washington insider, he told us we were wasting our time, because voter data is so expensive.

Not exact matches

Because Cambridge Analytica had ties to the Trump campaign prior to the 2016 election, some suspect that data may have been harnessed to sway voters via targeted political messaging.

The technique might have been expected to over-represent liberal or left wing parties because of the prevalence of young, urban voters online, but it appears the use of search data, as opposed to social media, may have limited the impact of demographic imbalances online.

One of my clients saw a 10x increase in monthly costs, up to $ 633 / mo, because of a voter data import.

But while inferences are easier to make based on actual data, what's more difficult to discern is what happened for numerous voters who were turned away or forced to file affidavit ballots because they weren't enrolled in a party or at least weren't enrolled in time for the primary they wanted to vote in.

Data from British Election Study panel surveys shows that the main problem UKIP has faced in translating its success from European Parliament elections to general elections has been retaining voters, whether because some UKIP voters only vote UKIP at European Parliament elections in protest and the return to their «normal» party for general elections or because the nature of the British electoral system incentivises voters to cast their vote for one of the existing main parties rather than a new entrant.

I.e., Mara needs to rely on data to find his handful of conservative / white voters because he can't make a case in majority - black parts of town.

Because independent voters are the voters most likely to vote for minor party candidates, this data Read more»

Because independent voters are the voters most likely to vote for minor party candidates, this data shows that a top - two system, which keeps minor party candidates off the November ballot, injures independent voters more than it hurts Republican and Democratic voters.

Privately, Scottish Labour figures believe that this was because the SNP was spooked by internal data showing its voters defecting.

Because the voters speak different languages, Yasseri and Bright gather data separately from each of 14 language versions of the site.

Not because climate scientists — over 97 percent of whom believe that human activities influence the climate — have found new data rebutting the science, but because polls show climate change dropping off the list of voters» priorities.

Apart from voter registrations, drivers license data is also used (and can be dangerous, because non-citizens can have licenses and may not know that you must be a citizen to serve on a jury).

«And I began looking at consumer and demographic data to see what united Lib Dem voters, because apart from bits of Wales and the Shetlands it's weird, disparate regions.

Now Facebook is the hot new political consultant because it controls all the valuable data about voter preferences and behavior.

He also suggested that Russian intelligence agencies could have easily scooped up the company's vast library of data on American voters in advance of the 2016 elections in the United States, because Aleksandr Kogan, the scientist who collected it, made regular return trips to Russia.

Just about everyone is pissed at Mark because, well, the entire world suddenly and belatedly woke up to the fact that Facebook's global data collection is fueling countless shadowy institutions whose aim is to manipulate voters and subvert the democratic process.