At least in past presidential primaries, Democrats have shown up in higher numbers than Republicans, according to a POLITICO New York review
of voter registration data.
Not exact matches
Its roots lie in the 2002 establishment
of computerized statewide
voter registration lists, but things really took off after the
data - driven 2008 victory
of Barack Obama.
The information did not include highly sensitive information like Social Security numbers, and much
of it was publicly available
voter -
registration data provided by state government officials, a company spokesman told Business Insider on Tuesday.
Even if third parties could only get a little
of your
data — your hometown, say, or your gender — they could match it up with all kinds
of other records, such marketing databases or
voter registration databases, to paint a more complete picture
of you as a person.
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued Patent No. 8,763,033 to Audience Partners for its proprietary technology allowing political campaigns to target digital advertising using
voter registration records and a host
of other
data....
Some
of this
data would have been recognizable to party operatives at the turn
of the 19th century, such as
voter files that contain information about the party
registration and issue interests
of citizens.
The patented technology provides the ability to use publicly available
voter registration records and political demographic
data such as party affiliation, voting history and political geography to target and place advertising and messaging across millions
of websites, mobile apps and multiple digital devices including addressable TVs.
In a press statement, NYPIRG called on Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature to establish automatic
voter registration and updating
of enrollment
data and same - day
registration (as in, on election day), and echoed calls for eliminating patronage in selection
of BOE employees.
According to
data provided by the California Secretary
of State, this is the breakdown
of voter registration by party for their roughly 225,000 people that registered to vote:
Electoral
data is based on three indices: the percentage
of votes cast for the big two (the only parties ever to form government - let's ignore 2010 for now), turnout, and
voter registration levels.
Already, the Commission has piloted the collection
of disaggregated
data of new registrants by type
of disability during the
voter registration exercise in Anambra State in August 2017 ahead
of the Governorship election scheduled for Saturday 18th November 2017.»
As part
of the Commission's continuing improvement
of the electoral process, we have introduced a new innovation in
voter registration in Anambra State, which will, in due course, be extended nationwide using our newly acquired Direct
Data Capturing Machines (DDCMs).
Signature requirement figures should be calculated using
voter registration data from March 1
of the year
of the election.
But Mathematica's study, using the most conservative interpretation
of its
data, found that «Democracy Prep increases the
voter registration rates
of its students by about 16 percentage points and increases the voting rates
of its students by about 12 percentage points.»
According to the Statistical Policy Working Paper 22, the two main sources
of disclosure risk for de-identified records about individuals are the existence
of records with very unique characteristics (e.g., unusual occupation or very high salary or age) and the existence
of external sources
of records with matching
data elements which can be used to link with the de-identified information and identify individuals (e.g.,
voter registration records or driver's license records).
The firm believed those profiles were better predictors
of how
voters could be swayed through targeted ads than traditional
data on party
registration and voting patterns.
UpGuard said the unsecured
data included names, dates
of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, and
voter registration details.
In total, the personal information
of potentially near all
of America's 200 million registered
voters was exposed, including names, dates
of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, and
voter registration details, as well as
data described as «modeled»
voter ethnicities and religions.
Completing
data entry
of voter registration cards; ensuring accuracy and completeness
of voter records
Repeatedly met short term deadlines with accuracy, perform
data entry, scanned documents, indexed
voter registration documents and prepared written correspondence and Excel spreadsheets with a high degree
of accuracy.
This projected examine
data from
voter registration and turnouts and analyzed the effectiveness
of different
registration methods.