Okay but if this shows the reason for absentee voting does this leak sensitive health information? Name and address whatever, but if you have a physical impairment then is this now public record? Has anyone looked through the list?
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#32Look what some others are doing with this publicly available information:
https://freebeacon.com/politics/dems-warn-multiple-states-we...
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is this tarring people? For voting?
In fairness, black folks in the South have legitimate reasons to be a bit leery of a public "here's who voted" list. Plenty alive today were alive during Jim Crow.
No, they had legitimate reasons many years ago. There is no such legitimate fear these days.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Yes it is in some places. I'm not concerned about the data being public, more the tarring part being a real thing.
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#35I 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…
> purple dye is placed on a finger to maintain a rudimentary system of tracking who has voted and who hasn't.
It happens in India as well, its to prevent same person voting multiple times.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
In fairness, black folks in the South have legitimate reasons to be a bit leery of a public "here's who voted" list. Plenty alive today were alive during Jim Crow.
No, they had legitimate reasons many years ago. There is no such legitimate fear these days.
The Klan still exists, and I don't blame someone who lived through Jim Crow for retaining the fear, just as Depression-era folks often tend to scrimp and save despite nearly a century of relative economic stability.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
In fairness, black folks in the South have legitimate reasons to be a bit leery of a public "here's who voted" list. Plenty alive today were alive during Jim Crow.
No, they had legitimate reasons many years ago. There is no such legitimate fear these days.
Far-right white supremacist militia groups specifically threatened to use force if Georgia's black female Governor candidate won the election.
Also, the law enforcement community does recognize such far-right extremists as a legitimate threat.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/militia-threatens-enemies-like...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/magazine/FBI-charlottesvi...
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#38I don't know at first glance if this is inappropriate. I do know at first glance that overseeing an election in which you are a candidate is a conflict of interest that should not happen.
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#39As long as this data release honours requests to keep names and addresses silent, I see no problem with it. You already register to vote, that information is publicly available. The assumption that it’s inconvenient to uncover is false: that’s security through assumed laziness.
The moment this crosses the line and people start publishing the names and addresses of people who have asked that their details remain unpublished, that should be a crime. Doing so exposes vulnerable people to harassment and death, often at the hands of domestic abusers or drug gangs they’ve been trying to escape.
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#40> “State law requires the public availability of voter lists, including names and address of registered voters,” she said in an email. > It’s little surprise that the way Kemp’s office approached confirming absentee ballots was met with anger. “While the data may already be public, it is not publicly available in aggregate like this,” It's interesting how so many laws are predicated on limited resources. Ie, all name…
The technology hasn't leveled the playing field at all, it just tilted all the power towards large organizations with lots of technologists sitting around.