Democratic National Committee halts access to crucial voter file after Sanders staffer briefly accessed information about rival’s operationsLess than 12 hours after Bernie Sanders received his biggest endorsement of the presidential campaign,the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has prick off his access to the Democratic party’s all-notable master voter file. The result is that his campaign is now unable to perform all the most basic aspects of voter contact such as knocking on doors and making phone calls in any functional way. While the Sanders campaign can still talk to voters, it has no way of actually keeping track of their identity and whether they support the Vermont senator’s candidacy.
After NGP-VAN – the company that administers the DNC’s voter file – updated its system on Wednesday, or a glitch reportedly made some confidential data from Hillary Clinton’s campaign briefly accessible to the Sanders campaign and one campaign staffer was able to access that information. The staffer has since been fired. The glitch was first reported by the Washington Post.
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Source: theguardian.com