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Originally Posted by photon
Is that registration information public? Like could I get some list from the Democratic party and find wittynickname on the list?
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Yes, apparently. I recalled reading something about this in regards to Slate's live election prediction project they'll be trying this year:
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As political analytics have grown more sophisticated in the years since, the speed and quality of Election Day projections have only increased. In states with extensive early voting programs, it is now possible to know which citizens have returned ballots—local authorities typically release a list of voter names each day during an early voting period—and match those to statistical models predicting how each individual will vote. Even before the polls opened in Ohio on Election Day 2012, Obama’s analytics staff predicted that the president was getting 56.4 percent of the early vote in Hamilton County, which contains Cincinnati. The guess was just two-tenths of a percent away from the actual tally released by county officials as soon as polls closed.
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a..._election.html