Democrats push to redeploy Obama’s voter database

[Sunset Lady]

This is a long article, but worth reading. It is amazing how much of our information is no longer private.


If you voted this election season, President Obama almost certainly has a file on you. His vast campaign database includes information on voters’ magazine subscriptions, car registrations, housing values and hunting licenses, along with scores estimating how likely they were to cast ballots for his reelection.

And though the election is over, Obama’s database is just getting started.



Democrats are now pressing to expand and redeploy the most sophisticated voter list in American political history, beginning with next year’s gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey and extending to campaigns for years to come. The prospect already has some Republicans worried.

“It’s always hard to play catch-up,” said Peter Pasi, a Republican direct marketer who worked on Rick Santorum’s primary challenge to Romney. “It can be done by 2016. I’m much more doubtful it can happen by 2014.”

The database consists of voting records and political donation histories bolstered by vast amounts of personal but publicly available consumer data, say campaign officials and others familiar with the operation, which was capable of recording hundreds of fields for each voter.

Campaign workers added far more detail through a broad range of voter contacts — in person, on the phone, over e-mail or through visits to the campaign’s Web site. Those who used its Facebook app, for example, had their files updated with lists of their Facebook friends along with scores measuring the intensity of those relationships and whether they lived in swing states. If their last names seemed Hispanic, a key target group for the campaign, the database recorded that, too.

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[E_]

I DO NOT LIKE people having our voting history and using it to their marketing advantage for their party. ANY OF THE PARTIES.

[Pinnacle]

Fat chance getting the idiots in Washington to do anything about this, especially after they exempted themselves from the do not call list.

[Sunset Lady]

I agree with you E. I especially, did not like that, they take the voters Facebook friends list and use that information as well. I know the information is out there in the public, but it doesn't seem right to me.

[E_]

I thought NO one was supposed to know your vote for the most part and that was why MOST states have laws that say you can't take a photo of your ballot.

[Soak-up-the-Sun]

After thinking about this, what better way to prove your allegiance and get a little payout promised than posting this info for all to see or whoever needs to see it? As far as taking a pic of a ballot, too easy nowadays with phones. I think, in my opinion, that some money gets set aside to insure a reward for showing up and voting for the candidate/party who illegally sets up a fund out of campaign dollars. The old draconian ways of not selling alcohol in Ky while polls are open can be applied with cash or drugs or alcohol purchased previously to payoff voters. Too easy to bribe anyone with anything and the truth will come out of this eventually, if the people demand to know, they will find out.

[Sunset Lady]

Here is another article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... story.html