Dems score with better data: DNC's Linux warehousing project delivered on '50-state strategy'

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The DNC solution, which was commissioned one year ago by DNC Chairman Howard Dean, tapped a new generation of low-cost, Linux-based data warehouse technology to improve the quantity, quality, and availability of voter information used by state Democratic parties during the election turn-out effort. Those close to the project say the new system, part of Dean's so-called 50-state strategy, helped tip close races in the House and Senate in favor of the Democrats.
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Much more at:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/15/HNdemsdb_1.html?source=NLC-TB2006-11-15

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1. This should have been in place before 2000 and definitely AFTER 2000. Dean sure

played catch up mightily in his short two years of rebuilding a collapsed party infrastructure.

I look forward to what he can accomplish for securig the election process for all Americans in the next two year term.

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2. I worked for the DNC tech team right before the 2004 election...

and I can tell you that the whole organization was in shambles back then. I ended up quitting because it was such a frustrating experience. They had an outdated system that really didn't do much of anything, and had no kind of warehousing technology at all...it was basically just a big ol database that did nothing. I'm glad they got their act together, they really needed to.