Доминионистские организации вроде "United in Purpose" (UiP) давно создавали свои базы данных избирателей. Непонятно, в чьих руках они сейчас.
In December 2015, Chris Vickery, an information technology specialist who hunted for data breaches as a hobby, came upon a massive database on 191 million US citizens. It contained data belonging to registered voters, from cellphone numbers to evidence of gun ownership. A second breach contained even more detailed information - including income levels, whether the person was a fan of Nascar, had a “Bible lifestyle”, or had an interest in hunting or fishing. After some sleuthing, Vickery thought he had a clear idea of where it all came from. It linked, he said, to Pioneer Solutions Incorporated, a company run by Bill Dallas. It also linked to a campaign titled “Champion the Vote”, run by UiP. But the real significance of Vickery’s discovery was the number of voters UiP had access to information on. “We have about 200 million files, so we have pretty much the whole voting population in our database,” said Dallas. “What we do is we track to see what’s going to make somebody vote either one way or not vote at all.” UiP assigns points to each individual in its database for characteristics that line up with conservative religious voting patterns. Individuals receive points if they are members of conservative churches or if they homeschool their children. They also get points if they appear to oppose marriage equality or abortion rights, or if they hunt, fish, or follow Nascar. “If [your score] totaled over 600 points, then we realized you were very serious about your faith,” Dallas explains. UiP’s first mission is to ensure all 600-pointers are registered to vote. For the 2012 election cycle, it aimed to register 5 million conservative Christians - a number Dallas believed could decide the presidency. In 2008, as he has pointed out, key states such as Florida, North Carolina and Missouri were decided by slim margins. Registering conservative Christians could make a difference. To do that, Dallas was able to access a ready army of volunteers, many recruited from organizations such as the Family Research Council or conservative churches. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/03/bill-dallas-christian-nationalist-right-donald-trump
На выборах 2018 эта база данных была, по всей видимости, задействована. Из выступления Ральфа Рида:
Reed said that Trump had gotten nearly 30 million evangelical votes, a record for any presidential candidate, and he talked about how many potential evangelical voters there are in each of the key Senate races, which are now tied or within the margin of error. “And by the way,” he said. “We have search history, online search history, on 40 percent of these voters. We have cell phones on 45 percent of these voters. So we’re going to be able to contact them.” Reed was speaking at a breakfast sponsored by United in Purpose, an organization founded by conservative venture capitalists to fund conservative Christian voter identification and mobilization, which Reed portrayed as essential to maintaining and increasing conservative evangelicals’ political power even as they shrink as a percentage of the U.S. population: "You remember how we were told we were going away? We were receding as a political force? Not true-because the only thing that matters is not your share of the population-that is declining-it’s the share of the electorate. It doesn’t matter who’s eligible or who’s registered. It only matters who turns out. We can have more impact today than we could have had 10 or 20 years ago." https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ralph-reed-2018-elections-about-survival-of-trump-presidency/
Доминионистские организации вроде "United in Purpose" (UiP) давно создавали свои базы данных избирателей. Непонятно, в чьих руках они сейчас.
In December 2015, Chris Vickery, an information technology specialist who hunted for data breaches as a hobby, came upon a massive database on 191 million US citizens. It contained data belonging to registered voters, from cellphone numbers to evidence of gun ownership. A second breach contained even more detailed information - including income levels, whether the person was a fan of Nascar, had a “Bible lifestyle”, or had an interest in hunting or fishing.
After some sleuthing, Vickery thought he had a clear idea of where it all came from. It linked, he said, to Pioneer Solutions Incorporated, a company run by Bill Dallas. It also linked to a campaign titled “Champion the Vote”, run by UiP.
But the real significance of Vickery’s discovery was the number of voters UiP had access to information on.
“We have about 200 million files, so we have pretty much the whole voting population in our database,” said Dallas. “What we do is we track to see what’s going to make somebody vote either one way or not vote at all.”
UiP assigns points to each individual in its database for characteristics that line up with conservative religious voting patterns. Individuals receive points if they are members of conservative churches or if they homeschool their children. They also get points if they appear to oppose marriage equality or abortion rights, or if they hunt, fish, or follow Nascar.
“If [your score] totaled over 600 points, then we realized you were very serious about your faith,” Dallas explains.
UiP’s first mission is to ensure all 600-pointers are registered to vote. For the 2012 election cycle, it aimed to register 5 million conservative Christians - a number Dallas believed could decide the presidency. In 2008, as he has pointed out, key states such as Florida, North Carolina and Missouri were decided by slim margins. Registering conservative Christians could make a difference.
To do that, Dallas was able to access a ready army of volunteers, many recruited from organizations such as the Family Research Council or conservative churches.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/03/bill-dallas-christian-nationalist-right-donald-trump
На выборах 2018 эта база данных была, по всей видимости, задействована. Из выступления Ральфа Рида:
Reed said that Trump had gotten nearly 30 million evangelical votes, a record for any presidential candidate, and he talked about how many potential evangelical voters there are in each of the key Senate races, which are now tied or within the margin of error.
“And by the way,” he said. “We have search history, online search history, on 40 percent of these voters. We have cell phones on 45 percent of these voters. So we’re going to be able to contact them.”
Reed was speaking at a breakfast sponsored by United in Purpose, an organization founded by conservative venture capitalists to fund conservative Christian voter identification and mobilization, which Reed portrayed as essential to maintaining and increasing conservative evangelicals’ political power even as they shrink as a percentage of the U.S. population:
"You remember how we were told we were going away? We were receding as a political force? Not true-because the only thing that matters is not your share of the population-that is declining-it’s the share of the electorate. It doesn’t matter who’s eligible or who’s registered. It only matters who turns out. We can have more impact today than we could have had 10 or 20 years ago."
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ralph-reed-2018-elections-about-survival-of-trump-presidency/
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