The Democratic Party has developed an internal rift between the national committee and state parties over how to best handle its voting data, HuffPost reports.
The Democratic National Committee favors the creation of a system similar to the Republican National Committee’s Data Trust, which compiles all of the GOP’s national and statewide voter information for use in campaigns, before the 2020 presidential primaries. However, state-level officials have expressed concerns about handing that data over to an independent group.
“We all have the same outcome in mind, which is winning elections and making sure we get Trump out of there,” Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chairman Ken Martin, who heads the Association of State Democratic Committees, said during a call to state party leaders on Monday. “There’s a way to figure this out, but it’s not going to be done on the backs of state parties, and it’s not going to be done by putting us out of business.”
DNC Chairman Tom Perez argued in an email to state party chairs last weekend that the party must “take critical steps to modernize our data infrastructure,” and let independent groups have access and make changes to the data in real time. “The other side has already done this, so time is of the essence. If we want to continue to win elections, this modernization is an imperative.”
“We can change the current system to see the data in real time,” Nebraska Democratic Party Chairwoman Jane Kleeb told HuffPost. “My problem is turning over decades of work to a group of consultants who are not on the ground and who are not accountable to a whole state infrastructure that has lived before us and will live on well after us.”
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