Donald Trump is attempting to select his own citizenry and control who can vote by gathering the personal details of all Americans, Arizona’s top election official has warned.
Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state, fears that the Trump administration’s active efforts to forcibly extract voter files from 30 states including Fontes’s own are part of a bigger plan to gather vital information on all US citizens into a centralised database. “Trump is trying to amass a master list that will allow him to declare someone an enemy of the state,” he said.
The demand for this data is a McGuffin.
The feds already have the means to get this data without asking. Voter registration data, excluding ssn and birthdate, are sold by every state in the union. The feds already have the rest of the information. It’s a trivial exercise to pull all that data together from those sources.
So why are they making such a fuss over this? Clearly it’s not for analysis, because if that were the case, the public information is enough. And they control the private information… so what is really going on here?
trying to give it to palantir, to have them screen out areas that are at risk of losing control to democrats. and also to target dissidents.
I think it will be even more sinister than we can imagine. Palantir has been assisting with the targeting of journalists, aid workers and children in Gaza. Thiel and carp both subscribe to “dark enlightenment” which is basically a plan to destroy democracy and install a technofascist fuedal system. They also openly believe white men should run things and have openly advocated for the rights of women to be stripped. Thiel is all over the Epstein files and is most likely a pedophile
Do American voters have their name tied to their vote? It’s completely anonymous in Canada
The vote itself is anonymous, the registration that your are eligible to vote is not. I’m sure that most countries, including Canada, has a form of validating database or other system to keep track of who is actually eligible to vote.
In the US, a lot of this registration data contains a lot more than a simple Boolean if a person is eligible to vote, it also contains PII and more importantly, political registration. Like in AZ, you are forced to declare a political party in order to vote in the primary. That kind of information in the hands of a party that endorses limiting voting based on political leaning is a very dangerous thing.
In theory our vote is anonymous in the sense of who we cast a ballot for is anonymous but voter registration has a ton of info involved and I’m sure it wouldn’t be terribly difficult in this day and age for a nefarious billionaire to be able to find the data.
Is your ballot tied to you though? I guess that’s the confusing part to me because when we go to vote, we just show our voting card (or ID, or mail with address and name, or have someone vouching for you) and get given a generic slip of paper we put an X on and fold up before putting into a box. Nobody looks at it until the box is emptied and counted when polls close. Even with voter registration data I can’t see how it’s possible to trace a vote back to you without there being a really conveniently placed security camera
No, you are validated as a valid voter when your ballot is cast, but the contents of the ballot are not tied to you
most likely.
Things have gone beyond scary.
Hmm mm. Isn’t that a national ID system?
What is the American rationale for hating it? It makes so many things easier, cleaner, safer.
Voting is so much secure, for example.
Do most Americans live the unabomber life?
Banks, the IRS, insurance companies, internet companies, data companies, the DM, the credit card companies, schools, yada yada. All have your data.
As a matter of fact, if the government acts a a data proxy, it could prevent you from having to disclose a lot of the data you disclose now.
You are in so many places, and this is pre-digital, that not having a national ID is just idiotic.
Here is some background on the rational https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/national-id
Here is a rough overview of the current state of affairs https://legalclarity.org/what-is-considered-a-national-id-in-the-usa/
Here is some background on the rational https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/national-id
Here is a rough overview of the current state of affairs https://legalclarity.org/what-is-considered-a-national-id-in-the-usa/
Technically yes but I’d prefer for it not being done by this administration. As an outsider with national ID, they managed before, I prefer if they waited dunno, 4 years before implementing it? Random number.
