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18 Million Targeted Voter Records Exposed By Database Error (csoonline.com)
itwbennett writes: Last week, a database containing 191 million voter records was exposed because of a misconfigured database that no on wants to claim ownership of. Around the same time, a second, smaller database containing fewer than 57 million records similar to those previously discovered was also found by researcher Chris Vickery. But the second database also includes 18 million records that hold targeted demographic information. And as was the case with the previous voter database, no one wants to claim ownership.
Better summary, from TFA:
>> the database appears to be from Nation Builder's 2014 update from February or March
Similarly Fiorina just accepts invitation to speak from different group, posts these invitations publicly in a google spreadsheet. Her SuperPAC uses this info to organize all the campaign work. Uncoordinated coordination!
This database could also be one of the deep pocketed presidential campaigns getting the info without paying for it, or provide the info without appearing to coordinate with them.
Just wish we would just scrap the elections and just sell the elections to the highest bidder at this point.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
These are voter registrations that are apparently available to any organization with the resources and connections to buy them or compile them... Aren't we better served if we just had the states make this information available for download? To my thinking it would be better to know what is known about us and what is being used to target us with political and commercial marketing rather than keep our information private. Although, certain law enforcement professionals have already expressed concern about having their addresses listed. So, at least that information should have been private.
And how did Lenin's alternative work out
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
then it just come down to the supreme court picking the winner with a dead line to get the case done by X time.
I'm sorry to see/hear that you still push with this revisionist bit of history.
The best you could have hoped for in 2000 was Bush as Pres & Lieberman as VP.
Under no constitutional or lawful sequence of events was Al Gore going to become President.
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Build a wall? Sure... But I'm still waiting on how you make Mexico pay for it.. The only ways I've come up with involve military force or some kind of new tax/tariff etc.. Just sending them a bill marked "over due, please pay now" is unlikely to be effective.
I beg you, ANY other republican contender over Trump... Please? I'll take him over the Hill, but he's my absolute last choice of the possible republican contenders.
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Didn't Bernie Sanders get in trouble with the DNC for accessing data he wasn't allowed to? Seems up his alley too.
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im no fan of bernie, the man doesnt understand the difference between a secured and unsecured loan... having said that its more likely the DNC and hillary are throwing mud and seeing what sticks
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
Hill is that you?
What does it matter now?
FIFY
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While not a fan of Trump, I recognize that as a business person he starts with a more out there proposal which he can then back off from during negotiations... which this sounds to be too.
You aren't thinking creatively enough.
If $23 billion is in fact being sent from the US to Mexico... just tack a 20% 'wall' tax and you pay for a $49 billion dollar wall in just 10 years.
Granted, such projections are based on more or less static accounting and discounts any changes in behavior.
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Like it or not, those methods are legal at present.
How well paid are the lobbyists for the 'little people'?
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Where effective in the Netherlands, there are some legal impediments to doing such a thing in the USA which stem from our constitution.
We keep the same records as your "civil register" at the same "local level" but they are independently managed and are not coordinated. For instance, if you get married, this fact is recorded in the county you get married in, which may not be the county or even the state you live in. Also, your civil register produces an ID for every person over 14 years old which must be presented when doing any government function, something which is considered racist by some sectors of the USA's society. Because of our constitution, the records you put in the "civil register" really cannot be put in one place, but are kept independently.
In the USA, registration is OPTIONAL for just about everything including voting. Where registration is required it can usually be avoided if you try or have a specific religious objection to being registered.
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While not a fan of Trump, I recognize that as a business person he starts with a more out there proposal which he can then back off from during negotiations... which this sounds to be too.
You aren't thinking creatively enough.
If $23 billion is in fact being sent from the US to Mexico... just tack a 20% 'wall' tax and you pay for a $49 billion dollar wall in just 10 years.
Granted, such projections are based on more or less static accounting and discounts any changes in behavior.
Like I said, if you are not willing to recover the cost of the wall by force of arms, all you can do is add a tax or tariff on economic activity.
But as others have pointed out, putting a tax on money transfers to/from Mexico really doesn't solve the problem because then folks would change their behavior and just send cash directly...
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Including the remedies in Florida law that the SCOTUS denied Fl the right to undertake? One of those was a full recount of all questionable counties (or something prettty damned close) and IIRC Gore would have won that count per the officially unofficial recount run by the journalists some years later.
Love the GOP - all for "state's rights" until those rights bite them on the butt, then trample those rights with the Federal Gummint! Yep!
Again, revisionist history that ignores reality, not to mention well established constitutional process and law.
Like I said, "Under no constitutional or lawful sequence of events was Al Gore going to become President."
A "Certificate of Ascertainment" had already been sent to congress and the Archivist of the United States, at that point the role of the state was over. Period.
The only remaining hope for the Gore campaign would be for the joint session of (the new) congress that is tasked with counting the votes challenge the result. If successful, each state delegation would cast a single vote for President. Given the breakdown of the 2000 House of Representatives election, it is almost certain that Bush would have won.
When it comes to VP, similar process in the senate, however due to the 50/50 split at the time, the President pro tempore of the Senate would cast the deciding vote. Who was that at the time? None other than the Vice President of the United States, Al Gore.
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My understanding is they were exposed to it through a miss-configure web-page, and one of his staffers looked at it, probably thinking that "that can't really be what I think it is" then realizing "that something I shouldn't be looking at". I dearly love to rake a Democrat over the coals, but this is a non-issue.
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Including the remedies in Florida law that the SCOTUS denied Fl the right to undertake? One of those was a full recount of all questionable counties (or something prettty damned close)
Florida had already defined the electoral process and was following that process, as is the right of the state legislature to define. The federal government had no authority to overturn the state-defined process, nor did the Florida courts on a matter of process.
The recount was done. The result was certified. The only effect of forcing yet another recount was to delay the result from Florida until after the deadline for the Electoral College vote, effectively disenfranchising every Florida voter.
Love the GOP - all for "state's rights" until those rights bite them on the butt,
Florida has the right to determine its electoral process, and did so. It was Gore who was trying to change the process after the vote was counted.
And gotta love the Dems -- count every vote, until the votes are counted and the Republicans win, then take every vote to court to get it thrown out. Awful butterfly ballots -- that both parties agreed to prior to the election. Awful absentee process -- that both parties agreed to prior to the election. Got a problem with the process? Fix it before the ballots are cast, not after they go against you.
"I'm not responsible"
(this is where I rant and rave like a lunatic)
I wish Americans would grow up. They are a bunch of children who are irresponsible, spoiled, pandered to, expect everything handed to them, do not understand basic finance, lazy, and greedy. This is coming from an American who sees this everyday and is disgusted. Instead of fixing the problem you will see companies and lawyers standing around pointing fingers.
(end of rant)
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
There's a limited set of people who have access to this database.
Lets put them all on trial.
Do realize that this is ALL SPIN no matter what way you slice it. Who knows what the real story is, did they open up access on accident or on purpose? Did Sander's folks exploit that opening? Was there ever any security there to start with? Who knows? All you will get out of the press is what sells advertising and out of the candidates what generates the most buzz/fundraising they can manage. It's a game to them. It's like this canard that Sanders is not a career politician even though he's held elected office for 25 years, where Hillary IS a career politician having held elected office for what, 1 senate term of 6 years or so? It's all spin.
Personally, I don't care one bit either way on this story. Where I'd love to have Sanders as the democratic nominee (or as an independent candidate running to the Hill's left for that matter) I really don't have a dog in this hunt being I'll not be voting for either of them under any circumstances.
So... To make is short. I was trying to make a joke about the democrats and data security.... Saying that Sanders and the Hill are both as qualified as the other on this subject.
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Even registering with the selective service is avoidable on religious grounds too.... Surely being a conscientious objector on religious grounds would be sufficient to be excepted from the requirement?
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There's this other thing called the phone book. Granted it doesn't contain your DOB. But it does have most of your name, address, and phone#.
I fail to see the importance of this database that these folks found. Yes - your data is out there - companies collect it. It exists, are you surprised? Was a law broken in "leaking" this information (doesn't sound published - more like an accidental leak). In my state it is illegal to post public access into on the web - you have to come get it in person. But I don't know what restrictions exist after that.
The larger concern from my POV is using this kind of data to build a larger database (like Nexus). My name & address? - send me lots of junk mail. Phone number? Already get plenty of robo-calls. But start opening bank accounts in my name or making purchases - that will be a PITA. It's the criminal activity I worry most about.
VISA/Mastercard already have a huge pile of data on me. They know what I purchase and how much I spend. I know this because my employer used to buy "your" name & address & income & spending history for mass-marketing campaigns (targeted marketing -- give us 50,000 people who make $80k+/year and spend X dollars at stores like Apple and Williams/Sonoma).
The fastest way to deal with this is --- delete the database. Fight back, name your children...Little Bobby Tables - https://xkcd.com/327/
Since then, things haven't gone so well. Though the 2008-to-today financial crash is again showing some of the horrible problems with Capitalism.
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