Conservatives use Democratic phone bank for own purposes, raise privacy concerns

[thundley4]

Conservative pranksters are trying to use a Democratic group's online phone-banking system for their own means, making mischief by calling the voters themselves and urging them to vote Republican.

The virtual phone bank is a project of Organizing for America, the grass-roots group that grew out of President Obama's 2008 campaign. It allows anyone to go to Call.BarackObama.com to instantly see the name, sex, phone number, city of residence and polling place address of a voter identified by the organization as a potential supporter of Democratic candidates.

The aim of the project is to give volunteers an easy way to help get out the vote by phone calling prospective voters anywhere, any time, with minimal hassle. But the fact that literally anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can view voter information has raised privacy questions, and some conservative bloggers and tea party activists are using the system for their own ends.

"I just called and asked them to vote for the conservative candidate who was in their area," said Robin Stublen, a tea party activist in Florida. Part of his purpose, he said, was to expose the organization's folly in providing the numbers so readily. "You don't have to log on and you can get the numbers. I mean, duh."

WaPo
Invasion of privacy?

[TVDOC]

Lemme see if I have this straight........they put the information up on a public access website, their opposition grabs it, and uses it against them........they then cry foul??

Liberals simply have to whine about everything......and perhaps they are not the smartest people in the room after all......

doc

[true_blood]

Liberals simply have to whine about everything
doc

Yes, they do doc.

[GOP Congress]

This is fun!!

I actually logged into the root site: https://call.barackobama.com . When you do that, you will be directed to the nearest district to your ISP location.

I called 10 people, and told them that because of big disappointment with the current administration, I recommended that they go out and vote for Carly Fiorinno and Meg Whitman. 7 of them actually thanked me, and were pleased that I called! Unbelievable...

These were people who voted for Obama. I don't have time for more shenanigans, but I wish I knew this a week ago!