Sentences with phrase «for voter information»

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That information should have remained with Kogan, but he instead gave it to Cambridge Analytica, an analytics firm best known for its work on the Donald Trump campaign, which used it to build profiles on potential voters for GOP candidates.

For example, he insisted it enables volunteers to enter voter information they collect on door steps on tablets rather than with paper.

AggregateIQ is also under investigation by privacy commissioners in Ottawa, B.C. and the United Kingdom for its alleged role in the controversy that has engulfed Cambridge Analytica, which has been accused of improperly using private Facebook information from millions of users to influence voters and give the «Leave» side a win in the U.K.'s 2016 Brexit referendum.

Companies may also encourage registration for a particular party, distribute voter registration information advocating for or against specific candidates, prepare and distribute voter guides that advocate for a particular candidate, and finance voter mobilization, such as voter identification activities, some legal experts say.

But the exposed database combined people's personal information and political inclinations — including proprietary information gathered via predictive modeling tools — to create a detailed profile of nearly 200 million Americans that would be a «gold mine» for anyone looking to target and manipulate voters, said Archie Agarwal, the founder of the cybersecurity firm ThreatModeler.

The Cruz algorithm was then applied to what the campaign calls an «enhanced voter file,» which can contain as many as 50,000 data points gathered from voting records, popular websites and consumer information such as magazine subscriptions, car ownership and preferences for food and clothing.

That information was eventually paid for by Cambridge Analytica, the voter profiling company that worked with the Trump campaign.

The information gathered was then allegedly used to send targeted advertisements to American voters in 2016 urging them to elect Donald Trump, who eventually won his bid for the US presidency.

Reacting to revelations that the political research and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained Facebook user data for the purpose of influencing voters in multiple countries, the Internet Society called it «the natural outcome of today's data driven economy that puts businesses and others first, not users» and called for «higher standards for transparency and ethics when it comes to the handling of our information.

Kogan's app also provided access to «more limited information about friends who had their privacy settings set to allow it,» Grewal wrote — aka friends of friends — which allowed Cambridge to build profiles for millions of potential voters.

Facebook proved to be an efficient backdoor for micro-targeting the minds of millions of voters, further isolating people in information bubbles of their own «truth.»

That's the question many Americans are asking after revelations that a data - mining firm working for the Trump campaign improperly got its hands on the personal information of tens of millions of Facebook users and created detailed profiles that were used to target unsuspecting voters in the presidential election.

A personality research app he created gathered the personal information on 270,000 Facebook users, as well as data on those users» friends, amplifying the reach to the tens of millions when it passed that data to Cambridge for a voter targeting scheme.

(U.S. Edition) Cambridge Analytica, the data firm that harvested personal information from Facebook users to target voters in the 2016 presidential election, is filing for bankruptcy.

Though the users were assured that this information was gathered for academic research, but the data was leveraged by Cambridge Analytica to target and influence voters with specific personality types.

Kogan later passed this information on to voter - profiling firm Cambridge Analytica, which claimed (but now denies) that it used the data to craft political ads for President Trump's 2016 election.

For years Limbaugh has succeeded at brainwashing low - information voters who only listen to him and Fox.

It seems to me though that voters today can obtain enough information to make an educated decision on who to vote for.

More broadly, and more importantly to consumers and voters, what does this mean for their information?

The more candidates a voter has to consider, the less likely a voter is to make an informed decision about any of those candidates and the harder it is for the media to communicate information about the people who represent the voter to the voter so that the voter may make referendum style decisions to vote out a bum who is underperforming or acting contrary to the voter's wishes.

Also note that companies like Catalist and NGPVAN don't just sell the voter file; they typically add additional data, for instance by cross-referencing voter information with consumer databases to build up demographic profiles of individual citizens.

Even the Voter Activation Network, better known for its voter - information databases for Democratic candidates (see below), is now offering website / CRM services to users.

Ergo, since voters don't always know what's good for them, this gives rise to the category of moral wrongdoing called populism, in which politicians give voters what they want, rather than giving voters what they would want if they were better informed and / or better at processing the relevant kind (s) of information.

At a news conference on Wednesday, NDC's General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, demanded the arrest of Dr. Bawumia for allegedly falsifying information to buttress a claim of the NPP that there were about 76,000 Togolese in Ghana's voters» register.

Another consideration: just about any campaign can also benefit from having a body of clear, topical and targeted content on published on the web in a variety of outlets, since voters, bloggers and journalists alike will be turning to Google and other search engines for basic information about races and candidates.

«Provisional ballots» (say, for a voter who lacks adequate ID) are packaged in two envelopes, one with full voter information and the second (inner) one that is completely anonymized.

Voters are most concerned about the issues (i.e., they're more often searching for information about issues rather than directly for information about a given candidate)

Regardless of their size, though, just about any campaign can also benefit from having a body of clear, topical and targeted content on the web in a variety of outlets, since voters, bloggers and journalists alike will be turning to Mr. Google for basic information about local races.

The party raised concerns over the inclusion of Dr Nii Narku Quaynor, a renowned computer scientist, Chairman of the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) Board of Directors, who's a known member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and His Lordship Justice VCRAC Crabbe, a former Justice of the Supreme Court who had earlier publicly stated that there was no need for a new voters register to be compiled.

receiving at a server a first plurality of records for a group of voters, each record comprising political demographic information associated with individual voters within the group of voters, wherein at least one record is associated with a first voter and wherein the political demographic information comprises information from voter registration records associated with each voter;

Note that if you're running for elected office in the U.S., the national parties are developing and fielding systems to put voter information in the hands of their candidates at all levels.

The app features a number of tools, most notably the Dashboard, that offers information and insights for volunteers, voters and backers of the Obama campaign, including:

I'm looking for a full sortable list of the results, for every constituency, ideally with as much information as possible: Turnout, # eligible voters, votes for each candidate (both # and %), winning majority (both # and %), etc..

The group does not outright advocate for one candidate or another, but instead take advantage of a loophole in reporting rules for independent expenditure campaigns and just provide voter «information.»

A November report from the reform group Reinvent Albany listed 11 measures Cuomo could take by executive order to make the state government more accountable, including putting government information and public meeting presentations online, imposing stronger ethics rules for executive branch employees and automating voter registration.

Social media is growing in importance for younger voters, and it has become the primary way they consume information, political or otherwise, Brewer said.

Cambridge Analytica's massive database of information on Trump voters is the guidebook for doing just that.

Still, there are other avenues for gaining access to voter information by obtaining on the county level.

Walk - lists, after all, come from a database, and voter contacts yield plenty of information ripe for tabulation and analysis.

We can imagine the kind of queries that these candidates might have purchased, for instance «voter guides,» «election,» «voting» and of course the candidates» own names and those of their opponents (the folks at Google could no doubt help, since they could dig up information about what search terms people tend to use when they're researching candidates).

For now it's not clear what the commission will do to compel states to release the voter information.

Note: We define as party voters those respondents of WhoGetsMyVoteUK who enter information that they intend to vote for a given party on May 7.

This profoundly granular information about individual voters and their preferences helped the campaign focus persuasion work on the persuadable and GOTV on the voters likely to vote for their guy.

The takeaway: Down - ballot campaigners are really using data, and they want advanced options for tracking and using information about voters, supporters and donors.

Kallos, who has long advocated for BOE reform, first brought up the online voter information portal

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It's a great tool for down - ballot campaigns, since targeted search ads can catch voters, journalists, bloggers and other influentials when they're actively looking for information about the race.

The governor's also calling for the state to adopt an automatic voter registration system which would send voters» information directly to the county board of elections.

«The Electoral Commission recommended that the government should arrange for a booklet to be sent to voters with information about all police and crime commissioner candidates in their area,» chief executive Peter Wardle said.

The board's much - maligned Primary Day performance is also being audited by the office of Scott Stringer, the NYC comptroller, who released an online form for voters to submit information about their experiences.