Advertisement Continue reading the main storyHere’s what to know about the panel and access to voter data. When Georgia accidentally released full Social Security numbers on CDs containing otherwise public voter data in 2015 — the so-called Peach Breach — the public was appalled. “We have a fairly substantial team just doing that work,” said Tom Bonier of TargetSmart, a voter data vendor that typically works with Democrats. “It takes dozens of full-time staffers to collect the data and keep it current.”Others also make use of voter data. The Times’s data set comes from L2, a nonpartisan political data vendor.

Source: New York Times July 07, 2017 14:37 UTC