Sentences with phrase «target voters in states»

Watchdog group OpenSecrets got a hold of Internal Revenue Service records that show Mercer gave $ 2 million in 2016 to Secure America Now, a group that worked with Facebook and Google to target voters in states such as Nevada and North Carolina.

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Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Michael Haas said Homeland Security told 21 states that «Russian government cyber actors» targeted their state voter registration systems in 2016.

Some of these ads targeted voters in swing states, like Michigan and Wisconsin.

And the fourth was to breach US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate voters in future elections.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

In a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itIn a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itin order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itin each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itin from targeted online samples», as it also puts it).

In another section on the political campaign page, Facebook states for $ 1, candidates could buy two pieces of direct mail, or they could target 200 voters on Facebook.

Geo - targeting, keyword - targeting and the fact that search ads are pay - per - click makes this strategy cost - attractive — you can concentrate resources on voters in particular states or metropolitan areas, and you only pay when you actually get a voter contact (i.e., when someone clicks).

Typically in the States, DSPolitical will only run client pre-roll video ads on non-skippable inventory so that the targeted voter must watch the entire ad before continuing on to their desired content.

The Associated Press unveiled a new project to supplant traditional exit polling — beginning with the 2018 midterm elections — by combining traditional, probability - based polling with an online, opt - in survey of voters in targeted states.

The same will be true in the struggle for control of Congress next year, as state parties, individual campaigns and outside groups spend tens of millions of dollars targeting their voters and working to get them to the polls.

If either of them were to stay in power for 16 or 20 years (and Obama was popular enough that he might have done so) large numbers of the opposition would find themselves shut out from power and subject to punitive laws and regulations (consider the IRS targeting of conservative groups under Obama or recent Trump's voter fraud investigations of states that opposed him).

Cookie - based voter - file targeted ads (like those getting scarce in battleground states) aren't the only arrow in the digital advertiser's quiver: Mitt Romney's now trying to connect with voters via Pandora internet radio, too.

But it could help Senate candidates in battleground states target both base and independent voters, who polling shows overwhelmingly favor expanded background checks.

Finding Edith Bunker Women who could be swayed to vote for Ms. Watson Coleman, the state's General Assembly majority leader from 2006 to 2009, were a key target, said Mr. Wilkins, suggesting that women who could be categorized as Reagan Democrats or «Archie Bunker Voters» were more persuadable than men in the district.

Clinton only received 33 percent of the vote from the sample, which targeted voters who live in specific neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Nassau County and a few other locations around the state including the Bronx, Albany and the Hudson Valley.

The new commercial by a pro-McCain group, A Secure Arizona, will target Republican primary voters on air and online as the fifth - term lawmaker attempts to define his race on the issue of national security and fend off primary opponents in a contest that already features former state Sen. Kelli Ward.

In the final weeks before Election Day, a scary statistic emerged from the databases at Barack Obama's Chicago headquarters: half the campaign's targeted swing - state voters under age 29 had no listed phone number.

Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, who sits on the Assembly's Election Law Committee, said Trump's comments are discouraging in light of the fact that there are federal courts across the country with judges appointed by Republicans and Democrats saying that states» voter laws are unconstitutional because they target people based on their race and ethnicity.

As in many races around the country, female voters are being fought over in Washington state's 1st district, where the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee this week launched a $ 250,000 ad buy targeting GOP nominee John Koster's strong opposition to abortion.

While in the State Legislature, Republicans had specifically targeted Democratic Senator Joe Addabbo, reshaping his district to contain every single conservative - minded voter in eastern Queens.

On September 10, voters in two districts will have the chance to re-elect or oust their incumbent Democratic state representatives who are being targeted for supporting tougher gun laws in Colorado.

In addition to $ 11 million spent on TV advertisements, as the New York Times reported, often targeting Republican candidate Rob Astorino, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday on the traditional voter turn - out operation underway in support of Cuomo from various unions, and the New York State Democratic Committee has also been mailing out almost daily leaflets in support of Cuomo and especially HochuIn addition to $ 11 million spent on TV advertisements, as the New York Times reported, often targeting Republican candidate Rob Astorino, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday on the traditional voter turn - out operation underway in support of Cuomo from various unions, and the New York State Democratic Committee has also been mailing out almost daily leaflets in support of Cuomo and especially Hochuin support of Cuomo from various unions, and the New York State Democratic Committee has also been mailing out almost daily leaflets in support of Cuomo and especially Hochuin support of Cuomo and especially Hochul.

An overwhelming majority of New York voters say they are concerned the state will be the target of a terror attack in the near future, a Siena College poll released yesterday showed.

* Barack Obama is showing that his pledge to broaden the traditional playing field is more than just rhetoric, airing his first ad of the general election — a 60 - second commercial re-introducing him to voters — in 18 states, including states like Alaska, North Carolina and Georgia that have been long left off of Democratic target lists at the presidential level.

The Independent National Electoral Commission in Abia state has disclosed that the commission was targeting to register 2 million voters, saying that so far, 1.6 million...

Nearly three - quarters of the 44 who opposed the bill either are on House Republicans» target list or are running for statewide office in a conservative leaning state in 2010 — a classic bifurcation between those who are on the ballot in a midterm election and a president who doesn't stand in front of voters for another three plus years.

As Peters noted, the group's first target is state senator Hiram Monserrate, and Towleroad can show you four of the fliers going out to voters in Monserrate's district as the first wave against him.

• The Republican committee paid out $ 22 million in September alone to pay for ground - game activities in battleground states, including staffing, phone calls, polling, targeting, voter registration efforts, and other data efforts.

Beginning in August, he said, the UFT will be targeting voters in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida through phone - banking and sending volunteers to those battleground states to help get out the vote.

In addition, Mosley stated there was clear evidence someone had used the Conservative Party's voter contact information database (CIMS) to identify the targets for this voter suppression effort.

Targeted adverts based on our data insights were heavily tested, then deployed to the most persuadable voters in key battleground states.

But with the kind of data Cambridge Analytica had, it allegedly targeted voters in many American states, who had not made up their minds, and had a high probability of moving.

«Ads targeted using profiles generated from individual voters» stated interests are more successful in shifting attitudes according to Online Privacy Foundation

The data analytics machine that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used in her 2016 campaign — named Ada after the 19th - century mathematician and early computing pioneer — used state - of - the - art segmentation techniques to target groups of eligible voters in the same way that Barack Obama had done four years previously.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

In a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itIn a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itin order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itin each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts itin from targeted online samples», as it also puts it).

Clinton herself questioned if Cambridge Analytica helped Russian agents influence the election by targeting Facebook ads to voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in an interview with Britain's Channel 4 News, but Trump visited those battleground states more than Clinton did.

Propelled the success of the Rock the Vote organization in the state of Ohio during the 2012 Obama re-election campaign; attracted new members, secured volunteers to knock on doors and register new voters, assisted with on - the - ground canvassing, maintained state - specific website and newsletter, wrote and updated social media content, and tracked and charted progress to identify areas for more targeted focus.