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A comment on 191M US Voters’ Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Database. Parent comment

Re:191M US Voters’ Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Da... by eli on Monday December 28, 2015 @11:38AM (#10801926)
Pretty sure it is 100% already public. And not that hard to access. See e.g. https://elections.nationbuilder.com
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Re:191M US Voters’ Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Da... by tedmiston on Monday December 28, 2015 @12:04PM (#10802073)
Came here to emphasize the difference between taking public manually retrievable data and public programmatically accessible data, but it appears the API has no rate limiting in place.
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