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RNC Outsourced Voter Database to India
roj3 writes "PCWorld and other sources are covering the story of how the Republican Party outsourced work on their massive Voter Vault project to India. "When the Republican Party clinched close gubernatorial races in Mississippi and Kentucky in 2003, it relied heavily on its Voter Vault database to get people to the voting booths. Though party officials are tight-lipped about what's inside the Vault, they've acknowledged it contains records on an estimated 168 million voters. ... PC World has recently learned that the major development work on the Voter Vault was done in India." The work, done by Compulink Systems of Maharashtra, occurred during the same time that a Russian hacker (RyDen) compromised their site. Thankfully, they are pretty sure that no data was compromised. Who do you trust less with your personal information, marketers or politicians?"
They also have non-public information that they've developed on their own (donation records and stuff like that).
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
"Washington State corporate records indicate that ADCS and ACS share the same address and were registered by the same agent, Steve I. Cummings."
Same agent, same company, add a letter. Now it becomes a 'different company' but more importantly one 'based' in the US so they can dodge the question easier. Does work done in a vnc session off a server farm in Seattle qualify as 'done in the US'?