Turnstyle: How Free Access to Big Data Could Change Future Elections The voter record is, in fact, public data. But it is raw public data. Difficult to take action on without massaging it into something useful. For generations now that step has been taken by traditional election data firms that have reserved their services for big bucks. Depending on the size of the record involved, a voter file can run into the thousands of dollars from private firm like Aristotle <http://www.aristotle.com/campaigns/voter-data/>. http://huff.to/UyNTEl Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/turnstyle/how-free-access-to-big-da_b_2084267.html See if people are clicking on this link: http://huff.to/UyNTEl+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra