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Texas State Involved with Giving Student Data To Help Certain Campaigns?

11/08/2007

By: citizen
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During the election the Prather campaign sent out an e-mail to Texas State students listing where they should vote.

During the Chris Jones campaign, Jones used the exact same tactic sans voting locations. What made the Jones campaign more interesting was some students with Privacy Block still got the e-mail.

Privacy Block is something you can request from Texas State so there is a block on your information so it's not obtainable.

It's possible the Prather or Jones campaign, both headed up by Sam McCabe, used a data mining program to strip out all the e-mail addresses of Texas State students via the Texas State website. However, this would violate the CAN-SPAM Act.

""harvest" email addresses from Web sites or Web services that have published a notice prohibiting the transfer of email addresses for the purpose of sending email"

How did the Prather and Jones campaign obtain these e-mail addresses? Did they do it through violating the CAN-SPAM act or did someone within Texas State give them out?

The e-mail Prather campaign sent is listed below;


Dear Fellow Bobcat,

You can Vote this Tuesday at your local Precinct; your local voting location is at

The Merrill Gardens Retirement Home across from the Ridge at Wyatt Dr GOOGLE MAP LINK:
All you need is your student ID, or driver's license, or Voter registration card.

Vote from 7AM - 7PM.
Problem Voting Call (512) 878-1963

Need a ride to the polls or any questions?

Call Dave (210) 859-4939

To see the Ballot: http://www.ci.san-marcos.tx.us/cityhall/cityclerk/Elections/

For More Information on the Election Please visit www.JudePrather.com

Or go to our Facebook Group http://txstate.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5729683638

See some videos about the election http://txstate.facebook.com/video/?oid=5729683638

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Name: voter

Don't know if you realize this, but the voter rolls are public information in accordance with the Texas public information laws.

All it takes is them requesting it from the Hays County voter registrar. All politicians do this, from city level all the way up to the big leagues.

They didn't steal University information, they didn't datamine. They got the list from Hays County themselves.

I don't know Chris Jones, Jude Prather, or Sam McCabe personally, but I can readily defend the fact that anything crooked was/is going on. Its public information. You could walk in there and request it too.

As for student email addresses, log in to your bobcat mail, click on new message, then click on To:. You can enter ANY current student's name, and their email comes up, regardless of privacy blocks.

I have a privacy block on my records too for a whole other reason. But your email address still has to be accessible on the TxSt global list.

Name: citizen

voter;

Your claiming not to be involved in the Prather campaign? I disagree with you on that one because;

It's illogical to think that the Prather campaign went through all 23,000+ registered voters and typed their names in one by one at the Bobcat e-mail website. Is that what you want people to believe? You must think people are pretty stupid.

The e-mails that were sent out that were reported to me were not young students so the Prather campaign didn't go based on age and they did not go based on where they lived either IE only people who lived in certain areas.

Anymore ideas?

It makes more sense if they got the list of registered voters then another list of students from someone at the school or by data mining. Then pulled out all the matches from the two lists. It does not make sense they went one by one 23,000+ times to find matches.

Name: Jude Prather

We actual did go through the Texas State web site and one by one copied and pasted all those names... it took many hours and a couple late nights.

Name: Jude Prather

We actual did go through the Texas State web site and one by one copied and pasted all those names... it took many hours and a couple late nights.




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