[HN Gopher] Deceased GOP Strategist's Daughter Makes Files Public ___________________________________________________________________ Deceased GOP Strategist's Daughter Makes Files Public Author : everybodyknows Score : 55 points Date : 2020-01-05 21:38 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.npr.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.npr.org) | everybodyknows wrote: | The files: | | https://www.thehofellerfiles.com/ | cbsmith wrote: | This needs a torrent. Badly. | hyperbovine wrote: | That's the ingenious thing about torrents. Literally anyone can | make one. | | Anyone. | nsajko wrote: | More context: | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hofeller | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Commerce_v._New_... | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redistricting_in_North_Carolin... | | https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judge-delays-... | | https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/census-citizenship-que... | | https://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-to-review-motive-of-trump... | viburnum wrote: | I found some good advice on one of the slides: | | _Make sure your computer is in a PRIVATE location. | | Don't walk away from it and leave your work exposed. Password | protect your monitor screen - with a short cycle. | | Save and log off if you're going to be away for long._ | | From "What I've Learned the Hard Way" | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NI53QSEta45KNKdkdoGn-wvpyt... | jacobush wrote: | Life-hacking democracy: | | _Hofeller had manually entered "%18_ap_blk" into nearly every | draft of his mapping software when he mapped North Carolina's | districts; "%18_ap_blk" is a formula that shows the number of | African American citizens of voting age in each district_ | | He made a custom software program already in the _1970s_ to | disenfranchise blacks. | | (From Wikipedia.) | Seanambers wrote: | This can't be good, there's a scan of a persons passport in | there, pictures of abuse and so on.. | datashow wrote: | "These are matters that concern the people and their franchise | and their access to resources. This is, therefore, the property | of the people". | | Is this true? | ajross wrote: | Literally? No, it's her storage device and her data on it. This | is a figurative argument about why she wants to release it. | slowmovintarget wrote: | The "bombshells" according to the article are that her father | planned gerrymandering for the North Carolina state | legislature... like every single political party in power | everywhere where gerrymandering is legal. | | The actual bombshell? That "gerrymandering" is pronounced with a | hard "g". | | edit: I'm seeing from some of the comments that there are worse | things in the actual files. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-01-05 23:00 UTC)