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Look what some others are doing with this publicly available information: https://freebeacon.com/politics/dems-warn-multiple-states-well-know-dont-vote-will-ne

Look what some others are doing with this publicly available information: https://freebeacon.com/politics/dems-warn-multiple-states-well-know-dont-vote-will-neighbors/ https://freebeacon.com/politics/dems-warn-multiple-states-we...

throwaway5752 8y ago
Yes, indeed: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-mailer-well-tell-your-neighbors-if-you-vote-democratic https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-mailer-well-tell-your-neig...
jancsika 8y ago
This publicly available information is an excel spreadsheet with names and addresses of absentee voters in the midterm. The article mentions two specific dangers about absentee voter lists: targeting unoccupied properties and-- related-- discouraging the absentee vote on the next election. That and the lack of ToS meant that posting this list was a bad idea. I followed your link but didn't find any examples of wrongly posting gratis downloadable absentee lists. Instead I read examples of problems with Democrats attempting to shame people into voting based on publicly available (though not gratis downloadable) data. That is a different issue than giving the public immediate access to absentee voting lists the day after an election. We don't need links vigilantly posted from "the other side" about a different issue to remind us that people do bad things all across the political spectrum. Please save them for a time when a poster claims that Democrats take data protection much more seriously than this. (I.e., please don't ever post them.)
- specialist 8y ago
  "...targeting unoccupied properties..." This is why I could never be a criminal. I would have never thought of that exploit. It sometimes scares me how clever and resourceful some people can be.
  - wil421 8y ago
    Just because someone used an absentee ballot doesn’t mean the address is unoccupied. I used my parents address in college and I know people who used it because they were traveling Election Day.

throwaway5752 8y ago

Yes, indeed: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-mailer-well-tell-your-neighbors-if-you-vote-democratic https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-mailer-well-tell-your-neig...

jancsika 8y ago

This publicly available information is an excel spreadsheet with names and addresses of absentee voters in the midterm. The article mentions two specific dangers about absentee voter lists: targeting unoccupied properties and-- related-- discouraging the absentee vote on the next election. That and the lack of ToS meant that posting this list was a bad idea. I followed your link but didn't find any examples of wrongly posting gratis downloadable absentee lists. Instead I read examples of problems with Democrats attempting to shame people into voting based on publicly available (though not gratis downloadable) data. That is a different issue than giving the public immediate access to absentee voting lists the day after an election. We don't need links vigilantly posted from "the other side" about a different issue to remind us that people do bad things all across the political spectrum. Please save them for a time when a poster claims that Democrats take data protection much more seriously than this. (I.e., please don't ever post them.)

specialist 8y ago
"...targeting unoccupied properties..." This is why I could never be a criminal. I would have never thought of that exploit. It sometimes scares me how clever and resourceful some people can be.
- wil421 8y ago
  Just because someone used an absentee ballot doesn’t mean the address is unoccupied. I used my parents address in college and I know people who used it because they were traveling Election Day.