Discs exposed Chicago voters' personal data
State and federal lawsuits alleging negligence by the Chicago's Board of Elections were filed Monday after it was discovered that computer discs containing more than a million voters' Social Security numbers had been distributed to aldermen and ward committeemen.
It was the second discovery in four months of possibly compromised voter Social Security numbers.
About 100 computer discs distributed to aldermanic campaigns in 2003 inadvertently included voters' Social Security numbers, along with names, addresses and birth dates, board spokesman Tom Leach said.
