NJ-12: Roth (D) regains access to VAN after red box snafu

State Democrats have restored VAN access for 7th district Democratic candidate Michael Roth after a dustup yesterday, giving Roth’s campaign the ability to once again utilize the critical voter database ahead of the June 2 primary.

Earlier this week, Roth’s campaign website briefly published long lists of voter information downloaded from VAN, which the state party said was a violation of the terms that all campaigns agree to regarding the proprietary data. As a consequence, the New Jersey Democratic State Committee suspended Roth’s VAN access, with NJDSC Chair LeRoy Jones telling the campaign that the party had “a responsibility to protect and preserve restricted voter data.”

Jones said this afternoon that the campaign’s access has now been reinstated, a decision that came after “an extensive legal review and multiple conversations with members of the campaign and the candidate.”

“The New Jersey Democratic State Committee is charged with helping to get Democrats elected to face down the existential threat emanating from the White House and we take that responsibility very seriously,” Jones said. “But we also believe in the importance of following the rules while working ethically and responsibly to defend our Party’s principles… We are happy to say an appropriate resolution was reached as expediently as possible.”



https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/roth-regains-access-to-van-after-red-box-snafu/