Last night Democracy NOW!

[serryjw]

TWo great interviews...read the entire thing
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Another important tenet of the one party strategy, Amy. Voter Vault is a massive database of millions of names, not just names of voters, but their tastes, their opinions on issues, what brand car they drive, what kind of alcoholic beverage they might prefer, whether they have -- what kind of features they have on their home telephone. And this is a database that’s kept here in Washington at the Republican National Committee headquarters, but that is accessible on a web-based program to Republican operatives around the country. If you’re a Republican strategist running a state senate campaign in Florida or a congressional campaign in Arizona, you can have access to this database and within minutes have a list of names of people in a particular neighborhood, where you want to send a volunteer to go knock on doors, based on whether they’re -- based on what level of conservative they are, if they’re very conservative, moderately conservative, not conservative at all.
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/13/1331232
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UPDATE on VOTER VAULT!
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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.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,117930-page,1/article.html

[Vincardog]

1. Oh Right. It was not due to stolen elections. IT had nothing to do with

crooked SOS disenfranchising Democratic voters.
IT had nothing to do with Crooked vote counting machines switching votes from Democratic candidates to republiCANT ones.
It had nothing to do with the FAUX newz operations of the Corporate Controlled Media. It was just that they use technology better than we do.


(Smack myself on the head)

Then why is it that every survey shows US to be the more Educated?

[electropop]

4. Voter Vault is part of the theft.

They can target individual households for suppression tactics, versus the cruder precinct-level operations (insufficient machines) that can make for such ugly TV coverage. So much more..."civilized" to trick/threaten/misinform an individual, privately with no cameras running.

[welshTerrier2]

2. data mining is this week's hot topic

the republicans have been getting all the press with rove's "brilliant national database" ... the truth is, Democrats have their own ...

check out this article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030701860_pf.html

[serryjw]

3. WT read the article

we are so far behind. There are citical issues that Indy's care about like Global Warming that we have to data mined for the info.