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 it).
The firm took the psychographic profiles it was building off the Facebook data at the time and combined
them with voter databases and other sets of data.
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 it).
Not exact matches
The attempted hack into Georgia's
voter registration
database was tied to an IP address associated
with Homeland Security, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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.
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.
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.
But the Republicans have some very powerful tools as well: capitalizing on their integrated
voter database, for instance, they'll find other Republicans in your neighborhood and arm you
with talking points to hit them
with.
Particularly, they are terrific at cross-referencing
voter databases with consumer marketing
databases to find likely supporters in unlikely places and target them
with finely - honed messages.
The «Mobile Pollwatcher» integrates
with the VAN
voter database so that ALL Democratic campaigns can share information about which
voters need a little nudge to get them to the polls.
At a House GOP retreat this week, Republican leaders discussed their concern that the OFA machine,
with its large
voter database and volunteer network, would be used to generate grass - roots activism for Democratic issues.
Obama For America pioneered modern digital organizing in 2012, coupled
with mobilization at scale, but even they failed to build a national engagement
database, complete
with every conversation volunteers were having
with voters on the ground.
With them, you'll have a relational
database which you can use to match a field in the
voter data to a field in the census data.
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.
All that data collected from physical canvassers through Electionear can also be synched
with campaigns» and issue advocacy groups» other existing
databases that manage their relationships
with voters and supporters.
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.
Kogan shared that data
with Cambridge Analytica for its growing
database on American
voters.
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.
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.
(No legal research
database is cheap, but pooling resources and making Really Good Value legal research
databases available to everyone supports «access to justice» goals: to educate students,
voters, and anyone else
with an abiding lifelong intellectual curiosity about law, lawmaking, judicial process, legal rights, government, and politics.)
Kogan shared that data
with Cambridge Analytica for its growing
database on American
voters.
Last week, the BC Greens said they worked
with the Victoria - based company briefly in 2016, noting they had asked the company to work on a new
voter contact
database and a website.
Wylie said in the UK House of Commons in late March that the Canadian AggregateIQ (AIQ) data analytics firm, allegedly affiliated
with the CA, had been involved in the pro-Brexit campaign, as well as had been working on software that helped the Republican Party to widen its
voter database.
The RNC's leaked
database includes all registered
voters in the United States,
with information from Democrats, independents, and presumably 3rd party
voters.
However, clues in the data — including mention of a project called the «
Database of Truth» — suggests more elaborate plans were afoot to leverage Republican
voter data and powerful analytics tools to aid GOP candidates up and down the ballot,
with two well - known GOP linked market research and data analysis firms also named in the documents.
The company combined the psycho - graphic profiles from Facebook
with other data and
voter databases.
If any of these organizations were storing data about
voters who consented to receive updates in a
database with exposed credentials, the potential for a serious data breach was certainly a possibility, UpGuard added.