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by pavel_lishin 3828 days ago
> You can buy a whole state's worth of data for a couple hundred bucks or a few cents a name.

Where is this data sold?

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Secretary of State's office for a particular state. WA charges some trivial amount for the trouble.

There are companies that add a bit of value by collecting the data and spiffing up the formatting a bit, then burning it to a CD/DVD for you. When I ran for city council of Redmond, WA, I went 15 minutes down the road to a place in Bellevue and just picked up the CD. It gives name, address, and whether or not one voted in each of the last X elections. SELECT * FROM voters WHERE "voter voted in 50% of elections" to get bang for the walking-door-to-door buck, throw that into MapPoint (tells you how long ago it was), and print out the walking sheets.

https://elections.nationbuilder.com

Among many others.

The data itself is mostly free public records, but it's worth paying to get all 50 states in one place

The Secretary of State's Office in each state is usually responsible for maintaining and selling copies of this information.