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Voter files/Databases

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Sunday, December 3, 2006

 

One or two cents per data item; 3-5 cents per record.

 

Two types of data: individual survey & household (estimated by census, etc)

 

Data problem: how to integrate systems & data.

 

NCEC data is the data showing DPI on a precinct level.

 

DNC Tech director:

Four kinds of data:

1)Voter data

2)Donor data

3)Volunteer data

4)Activist data

-Database issues/integration is not a technical problem; it’s a political problem because people don’t want to share lists (especially donor lists)

 

MoveOn:

-Datasharing with DFA, etc

-MoveOn very protective of volunteer data

-ID collection themselves as well as did data swap; voter removal to avoid duplication with labor groups, etc

-Also legal issues in addition to political issues with data sharing

-Did data swaps with FL & NJ democratic parties

-Measure value of data swaps by projected IDs, etc. You use commercial value of data to measure worth of swap; fair market value

 

Two levels:

-Technical

-Compliance

1) Tranfer of data between data silos for organizations at fair market value & chain of custody to keep it legal

2) You can use a third party marketer which allows the data to be bought by anyone

3) Political level. Salt the list, etc, but it comes down to basic trust between the organization

 

NCEC a group founded by Democratic Party, then spun off.

 

Michigan voter file from Michigan state party very valuable b/c there are no party IDs with registration in MI.

 

DNC has national voter database with every US voter, 900 fields for each voter. Unregistered voters can be found through consumer data.

DNC gives voter files to state parties; state parties sell file to candidates

-Signed agreements with each of the state parties that says that they share 100% of data in both directions

-After 2004, some state party heads went away, some voter files disappeared.

-In primaries, voter file given to all candidates

 

With standards in systems, information can be transferred much more easily, cleanly, and quickly.

 

The difference between 2004 and now is like night and day in terms of data quality.

 

DNC did voter file managers training in July. You need standardized ID headers.

 

In 2004 there was a draft set of standards, but it was largely ignored.

 

The problem is not generating a set of standards, but here is no enforceability mechanism. If it’s easier not to follow standards, you won’t.

 

DNC trying to convince vendors to standardize. RFP on Friday requesting to sync with NGP & Patent technologies. Also asked to sync to web vendors.

 

You can’t go directly though the DNC; you have to go through the state parties.

 

The state parties are the DNC’s constituents, and we don’t have the presidency, so the DNC doesn’t have the whip to enforced standardization across state voter files.


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