Archive: Year: 2015

12/18/2015

[caption id="attachment_3697" align="aligncenter" width="640"] "Senator of Vermont Bernie Sanders Campaign Field Office In Nashua NH 09" by Michael Vadon[/caption] The political media is buzzing this morning over the news, first reported by the Washington Post, that the Democratic National Committee has suspended the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign's access to its national voter file, after its data director allegedly took advantage of a breach in the firewall keeping its data separate from other campaigns' data to look at the Hillary Clinton campaign's voter models. The firewall problem was quickly reported by a Sanders staffer to NGP-VAN, the vendor that manages the valuable system, and Stu Trevelyan, NGP-VAN's president, says this morning that its clients "voter scores" were briefly available across its system until...