Election-Campaign Law

Absentee voter data ?only? $3000 in ND

By Paul Gronke

Check out this story out of Fargo: http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/296195/

Interesting points to notice:

1) The state charges $3000 for what must involve pushing a button to generate a report. I wonder if they realize that less well-funded campaigns may not be able to shoulder that cost or that other states make this information available for a very low (or zero) cost.

2) Check out the poll. 93% at current count say “don’t sell my information”! Of course, most of us in this field have long experienced citizen reactions (almost all negative) when they are told that turnout information is a public record.

Hat tip to http://electionline.org

Full post as published by Election Updates on October 27, 2010 (boomark / email).