The voter data is rented, not owned, by the campaigns.

[RandySF]

To punish the Sanders campaign for the breach, the DNC said the campaign could not have access to the party’s voter data. (The Sanders campaign fired a staffer involved in viewing the Clinton data, but said the punishment was unwarranted.)..

The “our data” phrasing by the Sanders team might seem antithetical to the idea that campaigns essentially rent the DNC’s list for their purposes, but there are a couple of categories of data the Sanders team would be dealing with in the NGP VAN system. The big kahuna, the voter file that the firm has had a contract to manage since 2007, is the property of the DNC. Campaigns gather information from voters that serve to enrich this file — who a caller says they’ll vote for or whether a landline number is dead are seen as valuable tidbits — and they agree to update the system after the campaign so that future candidates can use it.




http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-berned-is-bernie-sanders-by-the-dnc-data-breach/

[valerief]

1. Renters have rights. Sanders should have gotten a 10-day notice. nt

[Ed Suspicious]

2. I rent my apartment.

[Joe the Revelator]

3. How does that jive with the talking point that Bernie 'stole from Hillary'?

If its rented not owned, then everyone should be able to look at everything.