Sentences with phrase «of voters databases»

AG drafted bill's language barring release of voter database for civil litigation discovery requests WMUR ManchesterFull coverag...

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Winners will be determined not just by their financial war chest, but by the size of their voter information database.

An attempted hack into Georgia's voter registration database was traced back to the Department of Homeland Security, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

«While I am not aware of evidence that the 2016 voting process itself was subjected to manipulation, and have no reason to doubt the validity of the election results, we know that the DHS and FBI have confirmed two intrusions into voter registration databases in Arizona and Illinois by foreign - based hackers,» Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote in a letter on Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.

Time reported on Thursday that the hackers successfully altered voter information in at least one election database and stole thousands of voter records containing private information like Social Security numbers.

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.

In December a database containing the records of 191m voters found its way onto the internet.

Reporter John McCormick writes that Americans for Prosperity team members are using «the i360 voter database the Koch network built» which allows them to tap on their smartphone and «pull up a detailed map of each neighborhood, showing addresses, names, and ages of voters.»

Florida will sign one - year contracts with all 67 county supervisors of elections to improve network monitoring of county voting systems, not the statewide database that keeps track of 13 million Florida voters.

This database contains each voter's name, as well as basic personal information (such as mailing address, sex, and date of birth).

In 2011, Carol Davidsen, director of data integration and media analytics for Obama for America, built a database of every American voter using the same Facebook developer tool used by Cambridge, known as the social graph API.

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.

Chris Cillizza and Jim VandeHei have a great article in today's Post, «In Ohio, a Battle of Databases,» that looks in detail at how campaigns work with data behind the scenes to find voters, hit them with targeted messages and ultimately get them to the polls.

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.

Next, companies in the political space take all or part of a campaign's «voter file» — the database of registered voters for their district — and match it to consumer - advertising databases linked to those cookies.

The database - driven voter mobilization effort was also one of the standard talking points on the news shows this weekend.

Likewise their targetability — some vendors can even match voter databases with commercial databases to hit ONLY past voters in a given Congressional district, just one example of the ability of search advertising to reach a defined audience with the right message at the right time.

incorrectly blacklisted by overly fuzzy implementations of the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, (supposedly a fraud preventative database cleaner for purging or flagging duplicate entries from state voter rolls), which fail to require mandatory Social Security Number and birth - date comparisons given two voters named John Doe,

Today on Morning Edition, RNC Chair Ken Mehlman discussed some of the mechanics of using database - driven microtargeting to reach out to new voters.

Two weeks later, I read this piece in Salon about the race to succeed Duke Cunningham in California: seeing a deficit in absentee voters, «Republican activists «poured» into the district and searched a Republican Party database that could tell them everything about voters from their personal hobbies and professional interests to the brand of toothpaste they're likely to use.

But what does the increased emphasis on a combination of old - fashioned organizing and door - to - door campaigning and increasingly sophisticated database - assisted voter targeting mean beyond the strategic level of how campaigns are waged and won?

Their database only has 10 cases of in - person voter impersonation fraud, which is the only kind that a loose voter ID law would catch (i.e. any proof of ID).

Several companies will take a database of voter names and physical addresses (which candidates can get from the state parties) and do an «email append» to add email addresses for as many people on the list as possible.

A number of vendors and polling firms also offer what seem to be quite sophisticated microtargeting - based voter / donor outreach, but I've also heard experienced direct mail database people say that the by far the best predictor of a person's propensity to give money to a campaigh is his or her past history of donating — people who've donated before are more likely to donate again.

The firm boasts more than 5,000 data points about each of the voters in its database.

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

The local party would typically share voter databases, contribution databases and volunteer databases and would (post-primary) endorse the winner of the primary as part of a party line slate in as many pieces of literature as the local party can afford (rarely more than one or two) in a coordinated literature drop also dropping individual candidate pieces at the same time through the precinct committee person network.

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

I know that there isn't a comprehensive database of every US citizen available anywhere, but at the same time it should be possible to verify if a given voter is an American citizen given enough effort.

When someone fills it out, they're emailed a voter registration form for their area that they can then print out and mail in (one day we may be able to register people directly via some kind of database upload, but not yet).

Direct mail mavens have been using voter files and consumer databases to target messaging and fundraising appeals for decades and data - targeting online ads is a natural extension of that mindset and skillset.

First, you can hook into the National Change of Address database to make sure the data in your voter file is up - to - date (folks in this country move more often than we have elections).

A little behind - the - scenes database work can put a negative message in front of a carefully chosen group, keeping it away from other voters who might be offended by the its tone and also saving the campaign money.

It's just that along the way, a few new tools came along like online databases, services for mass emailing and online advocacy, donation and membership software, field organizing and walk list software, online voter databases, mapping tools, phone apps, the blogosphere and the rise of crowd sourcing.

But some of the most important technology work that campaigns do is a lot less sexy — voter databases, activism tools, Web - based interfaces for high - dollar fundraisers.

Voters whose existing details can not be confirmed by data matching with a single Department for Work and Pensions database of national insurance numbers have to provide additional forms of identification.

In the first meetings with partner groups like Planned Parenthood and the League of Conservation Voters, «we decided to make sure that everyone was using the same data and working out of the same database,» he said, allowing the groups to feed the supporter data they were gathering into one file.

Ms. Kaczala said the elections board needs to clean out its database on a regular basis so it has an accurate list of voters.

The database shows 207 cases of other types of fraud for every case of voter impersonation.

The poll in question found 76 percent of voters felt the lack of transparency surrounding major policy deals on pension reform, redistricting, expansion of casino gambling and the DNA database was a «very serious» or «somewhat serious» problem.

So, Pitzrick started flipping to the newspaper obituary page over her morning cup of coffee, and updating the voter database in her local state senate district.

Peterside recalled that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the build - up to the 2015 general elections, accused the APC of cloning voter's cards and plotting to hack into INEC database, which eventually proved to be baseless.

Voting reform advocates favor universal, automatic registration as a way to streamline and simplify the registration process, to eliminate matching problems between state databases, reduce the possibility of voter registration fraud, and maximize voter participation.

In its official analysis of the nationwide voter registration database, INEC had confirmed the registration of 73,528,040 of voters during the 2011 registration.

Hawkins forwarded an email to supporters on Saturday with information on the fall organizing efforts as well as email drives to build a database of potential voters.

This is the platform of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abuja, Nigeria, designed to proactively disseminate information about the Commission's activities to all Nigerians living in Nigeria or in the diaspora; registered voters in the Commission's database, and all other individuals residing in any part of the world.

He said: «Election Management Bodies in our sub-regions and beyond have deployed technology in one way or another to improve on the processes, administration and outcome of elections, ranging from training and capacity - building for electoral officials, promotion of inclusivity in the electoral process (youths, women, PWDs, IDPs and out - of - country / diaspora voters), the biometric registration of voters, delineation of electoral constituencies, geo - referencing of existing as well as the creation of new polling units, establishment of robust electronic databases, accreditation of voters during elections, actual voting and the speedy and more accurate collation / transmission of results.

Examples include tangible things like office space, access to office equipment, phone bank locations, databases of potential donors, volunteers and voters.

In addition canvassers for Ed Miliband had used a database of contacts that the Unite union had created before the general election to bombard voters with emails and text messages.

In the end, Narwhal's apps and databases generated and analyzed millions of precious nuggets on voter attitudes and preferences.