U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose campaign has been accused of stealing voter database information from Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, said Friday the Democratic National Committee is trying to undermine his campaign.
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“First, this is not the first time that the vendor hired by the DNC to run the voter file program, NGP VAN, has allowed serious failures to occur”.
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The DNC suspended Sanders’ presidential campaign from accessing the voter database after claiming the campaign took advantage of a software error. The process briefly opened a window into proprietary information from other campaigns, said the company’s chief, Stu Trevelyan.
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The DNC says several Sanders staff improperly viewed confidential information on Wednesday relating to Mrs Clinton’s campaign.
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“This is unacceptable”, Weaver insisted.
Hours later, the Sanders camp filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington seeking an immediate restoration of access to the database.
“We are running a clean campaign”, Weaver said. “We don’t need dirty tricks”.
The Sanders campaign blasted the DNC at a press conference Friday, calling the decision to block the data an “inappropriate overreaction”.
“If you look at a pattern of contact, we’ve obviously had concern about the Saturday night debate schedule and its impact on the ability of campaigns to get their message out”, Weaver said.
The dust-up between Sanders and the Democratic National Committee come days before a DNC-sanctioned presidential debate in New Hampshire.
“The campaign acknowledged they improperly accessed information to which they were not entitled, proprietary information for Hillary Clinton – that’s not in dispute”, Wasserman Schultz said.
“To my knowledge, we did not export any records or voter file data that were based on those scores”, he said. “We wanted to document and understand the extent of the problem”.
Sanders’ team, meanwhile, accused the Democratic Party of holding his White House bid hostage by temporarily barring it from accessing its own voter data. “What is required here is a full and independent audit of the DNC’s mishandling of this data, and its security from the beginning of this campaign to the present”. At that time our campaign did not run to the media, relying instead on assurance from the vendor that the problem would be resolved.
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The incident comes as Sanders struggles to keep pace with Mrs. Clinton. On Thursday, the Sanders campaign received the endorsement of the Communications Workers of America, a major union. Sanders to make sure that he is aware of the situation. Uretsky was sacked Friday after news of the breach broke. “It was a data leak, caused wholly and entirely by NGP VAN’s negligence, and Sanders’ campaign is being thrown under the bus for it”.
