ChoicePoint screening

[Onufry]

:confused:

When I found out that ChoicePoint was going to process the volunteer screening for FIRST, I did some research on the company. I found some surprising information; I wonder if it's possible that this information is true. Here are a few examples of what I found:

ChoicePoint manipulated data in the 2000 Florida election to exclude some people from voting. (see: http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=217&row=1)

ChoicePoint purchased illegal information about citizens of Latin America, especially Mexico.
(see: http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/0403/30choicepoint.html
http://www.americas.org/news/nir/20030907_choicepoint_erases_mexican_data.asp
http://www.talkleft.com/archives/005037.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,949606,00.html)

In the US ChoicePoint has a few cases in the courts for illegal gathering and selling of information about drivers' records. (see: http://www.bigclassaction.com/class_action/choicepoint2.html)

ChoicePoint had a security breach in their computer network; it was possible to access their internal data without a password.
(see: http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,49893,00.html
http://www.landfield.com/isn/mail-archive/2002/Jan/0155.html)

Kenneth Langone, chairman of ChoicePoint, was involved in the NYCE scandal (see: http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2003/10/06/story4.html )

ChoicePoint's databases are inaccurate.
(see: http://www.fbifile.com/fbifile-sample.html )

ChoicPoint sold insurance information.
(see: http://www.insurancejournal.com/magazines/southcentral/2002/02/11/features/19186.htm)

And a few general articles about ChoicePoint:

http://www.topdog04.com/000145.html

http://archives.abditum.com/cypherpunks/C-punks20030407/0252.html

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=203&row=1

http://biz.surfwax.com/files/ChoicePoint_Inc..html

[KenWittlief]

I didnt read through all the links you posted, but the first one is from someone selling a book about the florida elections, and how President Bush 'stole' it.

I would hardly call that an objective opinion - How did the author verify that >90% of the people taken off the registration lists actually WERNT convicted felons?

I have always understood that once you are convicted of a felony, you loose your right to vote, and not only in the state in which you were convited, in all 50 states.

The first link sounds very skewed and biased - making major claims and accusations - and he is selling a book - so its hardly an objective report.

[Madison]

Thank you very much for taking the time to research this information.

[Rod]

No screeinig now.
Could this be the reason?

[shyra1353]

i think so .. but i think that there will be screening in the years to come .. but maybe with a different company