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Georgia’s secretary of state posts personal details of absentee voters online

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Re: Georgia’s secretary of state posts personal details of absentee voters online

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Post by pavpanchekha »

maxxxxx wrote: post #14
jdavis703 wrote: post #8

I worked at the polls in California for the first time this year. We were required to post a public list of everyone who voted including their address. It's posted on the outside of the polling place for anyone to review if they so choose. The point of anonymous voting is to ensure that the voter's choices are secret, not to conceal the fact that someone voted. Even in Afghanistan where voting can cost your life, pur…

What I don't get is that the state tracks party affiliation and publishes it. This information should not be public or even better not tracked.

Not all states track a party affiliation (mine doesn't), but most of those that do do it to track voting in primaries.

Re: Georgia’s secretary of state posts personal details of absentee voters online

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Post by DannyBee »

maxxxxx wrote: post #14
jdavis703 wrote: post #8

I worked at the polls in California for the first time this year. We were required to post a public list of everyone who voted including their address. It's posted on the outside of the polling place for anyone to review if they so choose. The point of anonymous voting is to ensure that the voter's choices are secret, not to conceal the fact that someone voted. Even in Afghanistan where voting can cost your life, pur…

What I don't get is that the state tracks party affiliation and publishes it. This information should not be public or even better not tracked.

Next you will discover they hand it to a usually partisan vendor that runs their voter file.

Re: Georgia’s secretary of state posts personal details of absentee voters online

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Post by cure »

foxylad wrote: post #10
thrower123 wrote: post #7

I am not sure that it can be considered doxxing if the personally identifying information is what used to be available in the phone book. Ma Bell was apparently doxxing us for decades before it was cool.

The phone book didn't tell you that someone was an absentee voter.

And it didn't include their voter registration number.

Re: Georgia’s secretary of state posts personal details of absentee voters online

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Post by dmix »

AndrewGaspar wrote: post #18
Zenst wrote: post #16

Whilst legally it may not be wrong. Morally, it's a dangerous path as what good do they expect to come from this by aggregating the data into packaged up form that enables joe public of all forms, easy access. It is in effect, tarring all these people with a brush that is an edge-case scenario and that would be voter fraud. Guilty until proven innocent in the social media age has become the norm alas.

How is this tarring people? For voting?

I'm not naive enough to expect this data to remain private .. but considering Americans are being verbally harassed and physically assaulted in public for attending public talks in universities held by student groups of mainstream parties, or wearing a hat in support of the president elected by of 48% of voters in the country, its not hard to see how people could be targeted with this information.

It happens online too, people are getting banned from video game forums merely for expressing support for particular elected officials and their entire administrations [1]. We're well beyond the era where extremism / hate get you banned, the bar is being lowered and lowered to the point of speaking positively about a political group = banning.

[1] https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?835849-New-Ban-Do-Not-P...

Re: Georgia’s secretary of state posts personal details of absentee voters online

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Post by hcg »

If any sort of monitors were looking at this election it wouldn't be considered legitimate.

Brian Kemp should be in jail for his actions. Actually he never should have been in a position to take these actions. Instead he's going to be governor with no opposition.

Re: Georgia’s secretary of state posts personal details of absentee voters online

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Post by AndrewGaspar »

dmix wrote: post #26
AndrewGaspar wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is this tarring people? For voting?

I'm not naive enough to expect this data to remain private .. but considering Americans are being verbally harassed and physically assaulted in public for attending public talks in universities held by student groups of mainstream parties, or wearing a hat in support of the president elected by of 48% of voters in the country, its not hard to see how people could be targeted with this information. It happens online t…

Voter information is already a matter of public record
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