re: Turns out Tommy Tubberville is as full of shite as we thought

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I can’t vouch for the accuracy of either of these claims

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About 25 years ago I helped design and build the first "modern" system for curating voter registration data from each state, matching it against the USPS Nat'l Change of Address System ("FastForward") and then selling it to campaigns for 2.5 cents/name. The resulting data was light-years better and more accurate than anything they could get from their states.

Lets say you lost a close election and need to buy a few days to determine a strategy for challenging said election. Lets convince a bunch of gullible people they voted for the wrong person by mistake! The resulting outrage will give us a few days. We'll just need a list of every registered Democrat over 60 in West Palm Beach County (heavily Jewish) who has voted in 11 of the last 12 elections (heavy frequent voters), so we can call and tell them that they voted for Pat Buchanan by mistake because of a faulty ballot design. We'll call it a "butterfly ballot". Yeah, that was my list we compiled and sold to the Gore Campaign as a rush job the day after the election. In my defense we didn't know what they were going to use it for until later that night when the lead story on all the news was how all these old people in Florida were upset about something. I walked away after that.

Since then the technology available puts that to shame. Today its correlated with mapping data and social media profiles, all the "anonymous" internet tracking info collected on you by Google, etc... Such a system is credited with Obama's 2008 victory. There's a reason campaigns rent his and Hillary's voter lists for millions of dollars a month.

The RNC and DNC spend tons each year maintaining their lists from each state. If Tuberville wasn't registered or hadn't voted - in any state - that would've been known long ago and held to be used against him at a later time.