Despite the sense from voters that most of the races were already decided, a steady stream
of voters filed into poll sites throughout Inwood and Washington Heights Tuesday.
«The RNC was the voter file of record for the campaign, but we were the intelligence on top
of the voter file,» Oczkowski told Wired.
Most digital political professionals will think
of voter file / cookie - targeting or IP - targeted online ads when the word «addressable» comes up, but more and more cable and satellite TV providers can now direct ads at specific households based on demographic or voter data.
«Shit, you think the Russians can't get a hold
of a voter file if they want?»
He added, «We're not churning out segments
of a voter file or doing some other sort of list analysis that some companies are doing, we're doing hard data science.
«Shit, you think the Russians can't get a hold
of a voter file if they want?»
Not exact matches
As
of November 7, more Republican - affiliated Pennsylvania
voters had cast early ballots than Democratic
voters, according to TargetSmart
voter file data obtained by the NBC News Data Analytics Lab.
Moore, whose campaign
filed a last - minute «election fraud» complaint on Thursday just before the results were certified just after 2 p.m. EST, claimed that widespread
voter fraud had contributed to his more than 20,000 vote loss to Jones, a number that was not significantly altered by the inclusion
of military and provisional ballots that were later counted.
«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.
Even as Mr. Harper pledged Tuesday to steer clear
of radical change, investors and businesses in Canada and around the world are waiting to see how his government handles a number
of hot
files, now that the Conservatives won't face
voters for at least four years.
And the Democratic leaders
of the House and Senate agreed with him, as did the vast majority
of rank - and -
file members and Democratic
voters.
Wright was also accused
of filing a false declaration
of candidacy,
voter fraud and perjury dating back to his 2007 campaign.
To be a candidate, interested persons must
file nominating petitions signed by 125 qualified
voters who are residents
of the Arlington Heights Park District.
A plan to sell the piece
of land — a sloped area that includes a maintenance shed, some grass and trees — was approved by
voters in 2008 and then challenged in a 2009 lawsuit
filed by local group La Grange Friends
of the Parks, the documents state.
That suit was subsequently combined with another civil suit
filed on behalf
of the
voters of Dixmoor that seeks to dissolve the Park District.
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.
It's good for major players like Amazon, but it's bad for virtually every other type
of third - party advertiser, including anyone using a
voter file.
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.
They charge based on the size
of your
file, and will automatically opt - in the whole
voter list to your email universe, which * dramatically * increases your costs.
Addressable television's rise is choppy and uncomfortable, but in many places, a
voter file - targeted pre-roll ad can end up on a television screen instead
of computer.
We were there with a simple mission: sell the idea
of working with DSPolitical to launch the first
voter file targeted digital ad campaign in British political history.
We looked earlier at C&E Magazine's coverage
of a Facebook API change that gets rid
of a popular way to connect Facebook to a
voter file, but that wasn't the only juicy story in this issue's Technology Bytes column.
The DCCC's Brandon English came back with an excellent reply, that the fundraising paid for millions
of voter contacts that would otherwise not have taken place, and that the D - trip will be going through the
voter file once the data's available to try to quantify any effects.
Luckily, the campsite had wi - fi, so after
filing 1,800 words on the
voters in North Devon and North Cornwall, I could indulge in some iPlayer, though my hopes
of beans on toast were scuppered by the absence
of a tin opener.
Audience Partners is the parent company
of Republican - focused political advertising firm CampaignGrid, and what we're talking about here is
voter -
file cookie - targeting, as you'll see in the patent details below.
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.
While Rospars was in charge
of the entire political operation, Malover helped build software and took care
of integrating data and
voter files.
For example, a national
voter file popped up on a bare IP number late in 2015, and a huge trove
of voter data sat out in the open for two weeks in June
of this year.
Just as campaigns send out «walk lists»
of potential supporters for volunteers to visit based on the
voter file, they could provide volunteers with an «email list»
of neighbors for them to contact directly.
In the video below, Aiden and I touch on a ton
of good topics, including the power
of data for microtargeting in general, for cookie - based
voter -
file targeting, for multi-variant email fundraising campaigns and for tracking supporter actions, including social sharing.
Yes, progressive bloggers were vital for getting Lamont attention across the country and no doubt helped bring national news coverage and out -
of - state donations, but the campaign itself stayed local: «focused on building a
file of likely
voters, organizing a turnout effort and circulating Lamont at events, including small gatherings in living rooms.»
According to the contract
filed in North Carolina, Cambridge Analytic will cross reference its
voter data with lists
of existing Heritage donors to ensure it is only providing new fundraising prospects.
To qualify for placement on the general election ballot, an independent presidential candidate must submit a petition containing the signatures
of at least 3,000 registered
voters and pay a $ 250
filing fee.
Allegro has
filed a blizzard
of objections to Brabenec's United Monroe petition in hopes
of getting it invalidated, citing the signatures
of voters who live outside the district or were ineligible because they previously had signed Brabenec's Republican petition, and other alleged problems.
A group
of Monroe County
voters have
filed a lawsuit against Governor Cuomo for not calling a special election following the death
of Congresswoman Louise Slaughter...
Greenport
voters will likely be asked to pierce the state property tax cap this year as school administrators plan for what is expected to be among the largest tax levy percentage increases
of any Long Island district, according to data recently
filed with New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's office.
Also at noon, the LeFrak City Tenants» Association, the Black Leadership Action Coalition and The Black Institute
file a legal complaint regarding
voter suppression efforts by the Board
of Elections in New York City, 60 Center St., Manhattan.
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).
Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur has directed the rank and
file of the NDC to target floating
voters during the party's campaign and not concentrate two much on members and supporters.
On Wednesday, he did his own analysis
of the
voter purge in Brooklyn, crunching the numbers from the state
voter file and looking at how Kings County routinely purges thousands
of people from the rolls every year.
All this begs the question: How does Cambridge Analytica then connect up to 5,000 data points
of consumer behavior with American
voter files to build their profiles?
No amazing new tech has been rolled out recently — text message donating to campaigns is still not in widespread use except for the largest
of campaigns, but
voter -
file targeted ad spending is available for campaigns at all levels on the Democratic side thanks to self - service tools likeDemocraticAds.com.
In fundraising, Obama followed in the footsteps
of Howard Dean's 2004 bid by regularly soliciting small donations from a wide swath
of voters, raising record amounts online by federal
filing deadlines.
The rank and
file of the party feels aggrieved to learn that Zanetor could not vote in the very elections she contested because she is not a registered
voter on the Electoral Commission's National
voters» register — the very register on which compilation
of the NDC biometric register was based.»
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The two three - page packets were a follow - up to general objections that former senator Marty Connor, an election lawyer working for the Cuomo campaign,
filed on behalf
of two Hudson Valley
voters.
By comparison, two - term incumbent Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican from the North Country, boasted Monday that she had about 6,400 signatures from GOP
voters on petitions her campaign
filed with the state Board
of Elections.
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He's reminding
voters of Fields» well - publicized problems with her neighbors, who
filed an abuse -
of - power lawsuit in 2008.