IRS spying by party label needed a Vendor Contract -Civil rights ended via

[papau]

a for-profit contract?

Voter registration is state level info, IRS is Federal level and someone paid a vendor to put that info together, it's not like they just had all the info sitting on the same computer and accidentally merged it. Contractors don't work for free so their must be a RFP or contract asking for the mixed data.

Any way to FOIA the actual RFP or contract to see who was asked to do what and who asked them to do it?

Please do not let GOP/Media get away with "ooops, sorry, too much info there, we just deleted what we didn't need."

Earlier story on the IRS was tracking political affiliation in connection with audits:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2023959&mesg_id=2023959

National Treasury Employees Union told tax officials last month that, in some cases, political affiliation appeared in data that the IRS uses for tax collection. A private contractor provided the data.

NTEU NATIONAL OFFICE
1750 H Street N.W.
Washington D.C. 20006

Main Phone: [phone]

Faxes:

Executive: [phone]
Legislation: [phone]
Public Relations: [phone]
Office of the General Counsel: [phone]
Field Operations: [phone]
Negotiations: [phone]
Conference Center: [phone]
Information Systems,
Accounting,
Membership Records,
Membership Benefits,
Office Operations [phone]



NTEU DC FIELD OFFICE
Suite 600
1750 H Street N.W.
Washington D.C. 20006
Main Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]



The union's president, Colleen Kelley mailto:[e-mail]

http://www.nteu.org/MemberBenefits/Apply.aspx

[acmejack]

1. I don't know, let's find out!

An RFP should be in the public domain already.

[DBoon]

2. and it is very very unlikely that the data was just there already

voter registration data (esp party affiliation) has no legitimate use in credit scoring or identity verification.

In some states, commercial use of voter registration information is specifically banned.

I doubt that commercial credit databases have this information already in them.

I bet money the vendor was asked specifically to include that information.