Is Your state selling your personal information from voter registration files?

19 min · 11 de jun de 2026

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The short answer is yes, voter registration data from across the country is actively bought, sold, and traded on the dark web. Constella Intelligence The biggest irony of voter roll data is that threat actors don't always have to "hack" the government to get it. In the vast majority of states, voter rolls are legally considered public records. While everyday citizens can't just browse them for fun, political campaigns, PACs, and commercial data brokers can legally buy the statewide voter file directly from state governments. The prices vary wildly by state—ranging from free to upwards of $37,000. Once a political campaign or a third-party data firm buys that master list, they upload it to their own private servers to build voter-targeting models. Because these private political consulting firms rarely have the same level of cybersecurity as a military base or a major bank, they get hacked all the time. While everyday citizens can't just browse them for fun, political campaigns, PACs, and commercial data brokers can legally buy the statewide voter file directly from state governments. The prices vary wildly by state—ranging from free to upwards of $37,000. Once a political campaign or a third-party data firm buys that master list, they upload it to their own private servers to build voter-targeting models. Because these private political consulting firms rarely have the same level of cybersecurity as a military base or a major bank, they get hacked all the time. Cybercriminals break into the servers of these middleman political firms, steal the clean spreadsheets of voter data, and flip them for a quick profit on dark web marketplaces like Russian Market or BidenCash.

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