Posted on 12/28/2015 1:57:13 PM PST by LibWhacker
Such records are exposed at various nodes around the Net and are already used by exclusionist political groups to harass voters.
Colorado registered voters as of 1 November 2015
http://coloradovoters.info/
Try searching your state voter ID number -— that should be specific enough to bring up something where that number exists.
Somebody with political skills should interrogate the database by address to find out how many hundreds of “voters” share the same, small, vacant lot as their “home address.”
With my voting record - FEMA camp here I come.
Seriously tho - you are correct. When I ran for office in California, I was PROVIDED a complete list of Registered Voters in the District, but I believe it is based on Party Affiliation. Only the list for those in one’s party IIRC.
Basically, ANYONE (either of the two uni-parties) can get the complete list easily. Just run nominal candidates in all districts across all parties, even if they are not serious candidates. You get: all the voter names, addresses, AGES (DOB), voter history, etc.
4L
Voters in my area received mail a few years ago showing that an anonymous political organization was aware of their voter information. In light of contemporary political speech, how long before one political group starts burning homes down and murdering its competition?
What is the database URL?
None of this particularly shocking, except that a lot of hard work goes into building a national database so why someone would give it away... almost sounds like an urban legend.
I made a FOIL request to my county board of elections and got a voter download for the town I just moved to. Using it to build a C#/SQL application to turn out the vote, and to help me meet hardcore Conservatives and Republicans in my new town.
All conservatives should be doing this.
Good idea, thanks. Not sure what mine is, but I should be able to find it somewhere around here.
Yep. I’m glad he was! I still don’t think it’d be that hard to find, but I am about to give up.
The most common example, perhaps, is Medicare and Social Security. Become a "beneficiary" and you'll be besieged by tons of unsolicited mail from just about every health care organization and HMO you can think of. And when you turn 50, the Social Security Administration will see to it that you get on the (left- leaning) AARP mailing list.
As government grows, more and more organizations have more and more access to citizens' private information, and the zone of personal privacy shrinks until it becomes non-existent.
What's scary now is the possible ramifications of the HIPPA's requirements for medical record electronic databases.
It's freely available in most states. Just Google "voter lookup" for your home county. The big deal being made is that this database aggregates all the local records into one. It's actually no big deal.
This.
The same people freaking out over this would freak out if they knew a local company used to deliver a big book to your doorstep with all of the city residents' names, telephone numbers, and home addresses.
Looks real similar to the data they are accumulating:
http://nationbuilder.com/people_api
And they offer:
Free access to the registered voters in your district
Get a CSV file of your district for free
http://nationbuilder.com/voter_file
Oh man....
They gotta find out where this came from...
191 million is pretty much all voting records I would guess.
I have a schematic of hippa privacy.
There is no privacy from the government under hippa
If you know how the voting records for each state are "coded" ... yes, you should be able to figure that out.
Back between 1993 and 1996 I did quite a bit of political consulting and had access to the voter lists here in Illinois. When I say "access" I mean I had the entire database of every voter in Illinois, along with their voting history.
I could look up anyone and see whether or not they voted in a particular race, and how they voted (which party, which candidates, etc..) because I also had the database mapping of what each column meant for each voter.
One of the things I did back then was to sort and print what are called "walking lists" which are used by campaign workers who go door to door around election time and ask you to vote for a specific candidate.
Every campaign worker for campaigns I consulted with would know who you were BY NAME, your political affiliation and whether or not / how you voted in the last x number of elections before they ever rang your doorbell.
Obviously, those voters with histories of voting straight party line every time AGAINST YOUR PARTY, smart campaigns/campaign workers would knowingly avoid so as not to get into a confrontation. Voters with a history of voting FOR your party/candidate they'd focus on reminding you to get out and vote, and thank you for voting. Those with mixed voting records would get the "would you consider voting for our candidate based on ......" approach.
So as long as you know what each column of information means for each voter, and that database identifies voters BY STATE, one could easily conceivably determine who's voted multiple times in an election --- assuming that information made it into the database in the first place. There are scenario's I can think of where multiple ballots would be counted for the same person, but that information not make it into a state database (seen that happen here in Illinois.)
Anyone find a link to the database mentioned in this article? I haven't finished reading it yet, and I'd sure like to get a copy for my own "testing" purposes....
Depends on how the data is stored & laid out. For all we know right now, that 191 million number is simply the number of voting records and not the number of people and their voting records.
Make sense?
bkmk
Been on it since I turned 50, 17 years. Despite the fact I fill their self paid envelopes up with Traitors, you ruined Medicare.
My husband’s late MIL and his late wife still receive them and they have been dead over a decade. They never purge their list.
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