Sentences with phrase «information from voter»

We used publicly available data, such as information from voter registration files, and what was reported to the campaign by people canvassing their neighborhoods, as well as information posted on Facebook and what was given in response to email requests.

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;

«That is an explicit acknowledgment that this payment was about the election and was about hiding information from voters immediately before the presidential election,» said Paul S. Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation at watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a legal claim over the payment.

In Edwards» case, his lawyers argued $ 1 million in secret payments to Edwards» pregnant mistress by Edwards» donors were aimed at shielding his wife, Elizabeth, who died of cancer in 2010, not hiding the information from voters.

One thing the parties can do is collect their own information from voters through websites, canvassing or campaign events — essentially building their own voter file of people who consent to be included.

Stringer also opened an online portal to solicit information from voters regarding their experiences trying to vote.

Not exact matches

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.

It was Zuckerberg's job in the hearing to provide reassurance in the wake of the news that political data firm Cambridge Analytica harvested information from more than 87 million Facebook users to create voter profiles that were used by Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

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.

Its report about Facebook covering the period from 2015 to 2017 — a time during which Cambridge Analytica may have tapped Facebook data to create «psychographic» profiles of voters — found that Facebook's privacy controls «were operating with sufficient effectiveness,» according to copies of its reviews obtained through open - records requests by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, a watchdog group.

Revelations that a voter - profiling company that worked Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign harvested private information from 50 million Facebook profiles have many people wondering: What, if anything, can they do to protect their data connected to the social network?

Alexander Nix, the CEO of the London - based voter profiling company Cambridge Analytica — which harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users without their permission to analyze their voter behavior — has been suspended from his job.

And anonymously sourced reports from McClatchy and Vanity Fair, among others, have said Mueller's team is looking into whether Trump's digital operation provided information to Russians to help them determine which American voters to target with their own digital efforts.

(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.

Facebook continues to reel from increased scrutiny and criticism in the wake of allegations that it provided users» personal information to data firm Cambridge Analytica, which was then used to influence voters in the 2016 US presidential campaign.

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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.

Imagine having to go to a voter face - to - face, get an e-signature from that person allowing you to hold information about him or her and then having to follow up that contact with an email confirmation from them that they agreed to this.

When Zephyr Teachout looked at the Republican candidates» sites from the point of view of an undecided voter a few weeks ago, she pointed out how few made it easy to find basic information about why someone SHOULD support the candidate.

Imagine a scenario in which you needed to have a confirmed, double opt - in from a voter to hold any information about that person.

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.

And in the future too, we should expect to see ever more intense efforts to reach more and more potentially persuadable or potentially «mobilizable» voters in high - stakes, well - resourced, competitive elections, even as the majority of Americans who live in states and districts that are not competitive will hear less and less from campaigns as they, quite reasonably, use all available information to concentrate their resources where they think they matter.

Update: A reader writes in to point out that Trump DOES have a data operation whether he knows it or not, and it's true that his campaign's purchased voter information from L2.

I was barred from taking pictures of the Books of Voters (before the start of voting) because they contain personal information.

The President's Election Commission initially requested voter information, including criminal history and Social Security numbers, from the Cuomo Administration through the Secretary of State, which was rejected.

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.

«By requiring nonprofits to disclose the extent and nature of their electioneering activities, we are protecting prospective donors from misleading solicitations, and giving voters more information about who is behind many of the ads they will see in this year's elections,» Schneiderman stated.

Although basic voter information is public record, Deep Root's dataset contains a swirl of proprietary information from the RNC's data firms.

Trump's election integrity commission will make public records requests to obtain voter data from the states that have refused to turn over that information, the commission's vice chair said.

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

The Deliberation Day event aims to cut through the spin and biased information coming from the campaigning groups by encouraging all voters to spend a day learning and deliberating about the issue.

But it is home to the largely secret engine of President Obama's re-election campaign, where scores of political strategists, data analysts, corporate marketers and Web producers are sifting through information gleaned from Facebook, voter logs and hundreds of thousands of telephone or in - person conversations to reassemble and re-energize the scattered coalition of supporters who swept Mr. Obama into the White House four years ago.

Taking their lead from some of the best US campaigns, parties have been making extensive use of polling, local intelligence from voters, and additional useful information like consumer data, to produce microtargeted campaigns to raise turnout amongst specific groups in target seats.

It should be clear to voters where information is coming from, and if it's not transparent or open where it's coming from, it raises the question of whether we are actually living in a democracy or not.»

The party also distributed thousands of detailed surveys to voters in marginals, and merged all this polling data with information from electoral rolls and commercial market research to produce the most comprehensive picture yet of who might be persuaded to vote Conservative.

Go to timesunion.com to check out our new online 2010 Voters Guide, which features candidate information and policy questions from almost two dozen state and local races and some 60 aspirants.

Republicans mulled court action on the grounds that party lawyers were prevented from observing the counting of some absentee ballots, voting machines erroneously recorded votes from Lamb, and voters were confused by some information from the state election Web site.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in June that the state would not comply with requests from the panel — which is authorized by President Donald Trump and headed by Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach — to turn over information about New York's voters.

Merlin allows the party to combine information about a local area gathered from canvass sheets with Mosaic — a subtle classification of voter groups developed by the research firm Experian, which gives a detailed breakdown of 65 consumer «tribes» such as «cafe bar professionals» and «high spending families».

Following the election, The Daily Telegraph detailed changes to Wikipedia pages made from computers with IP addresses inside Parliament raising suspicion that «MPs or their political parties deliberately hid information from the public online to make candidates appear more electable to voters» and a deliberate attempt to hide embarrassing information from the electorate.

The board today announced it would comply with a Freedom of Information Law request from the commission that would turn over voter rolls listing names, addresses and which elections the voter participated in.

The FOIL request from the Elections panel, however, complies with the state's law for disclosure of voter rolls as long as the information is used for election - related purposes.

While Cuomo has millions of dollars from his Wall Street backers to flood the airwaves with ads to make him look good and his opponents look bad, voters need real information — an opportunity to hear each candidate challenged on their campaign slogans and forced to answer the difficult questions they would prefer to avoid.

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A dedicated website was launched providing information on all candidates [15] from which voters could request hardcopy information leaflets printed to order.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's election integrity commission will make public records requests to obtain voter data from the states that have refused to turn over that information, the commission's vice chair said Wednesday.

In the 2012 PCC elections the primary method of communicating information to voters was via a central website, http:///www.choosemypcc.org.uk, on which election addresses from candidates were available.

Two realistic steps the government can take to address low voter turnout are combining the next PCC elections with local government elections and providing funding so a booklet with election addresses from each PCC candidate along with information about the election itself is sent to every household in the relevant police area.

Only an estimated 5.6 % of eligible voters saw candidate information from the Home Office.

The detailed YouGov results provide much information about second and subsequent preferences, although they predict a rather unrealistic low switch in allegiance in AV first preference votes from FPTP voting intentions — both Labour and Tories, for example, are predicted to retain 96 % of their FPTP voters as first preferences which must understate the switch to UKIP and the Greens, for example.