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by miki123211 621 days ago
> bought the personal voting records of every American citizen from a data broker we found on the internet

The way they phrase this, it sounds like they physically bought a file containing these records, not e.g. access to some API that lets them send targeted messages.

If that is the case and that file can be bought so easily, I'm surprised some version of it hasn't leaked on the internet yet.

An email address, phone number, address and political leaning for every voting American? That would be the breach to end all breaches, probably both figuratively and literally.

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I didn't work with election data but I dealt with Data brokers and they worked both ways. They offered API as a service access or a single bulk download for special pricing. I was surprised how relatively cheap it was considering all the data they offered.