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One number that might be good to know is the number of legal voters who have actually been de-registered under the existing system. From what I can read, that number is zero, and so the system may actually be working properly. If they have enough years of data to determine that every one that checked with the same address was a proper deletion, then that would support not waiting two years.

This lawsuit is about potential abuse, there is no evidence of actual abuse, and its not clearly stated exactly how it would be abused. More info needed.

My question is not the process of de-register. My big question is the validity of the database of Crosscheck software which is used to verify voters. If the database is similar to those in beenverified.com or a like, then I have very little confidence in this kind of software. It is all over the place. If it is from DMV, it is better but not zero. There will be some false positive cases because there are people with common first and last name (e.g. last name Smith, Johnson, Williams, etc.) that could easily be born on the same date. There will NEVER BE ZERO effect unless you are ignorant on reality.

There are no English surnames beginning with Q,..

There are: Surnames beginning with Q

> When this study was done for job interviews, the test was always low class black names vs. obvious middle/upper class white names.

Bullshit. They used names like Jamal and Lakisha. Those both are names from the african continent, neither are 'ghetto' mispronunciations of everyday products.

It is crazy what theories assholes will invent to deny that racism exists. The funny thing is that such denials end up as a sort of meta independent proof themselves.

While I think name-based studies like this have the potential to be the least biased because they remove hard-to-control issues related to appearance and behavior, that's a load of shit. Unless you have some income data (or other socioeconomic data) related to these names that you're holding out on?

If they can't bother to find "white" names that have socioeconomic stats roughly approximating the "black" names they're using, or at least find a plausible way to correct for the differences, AND establish that certain names really are typically viewed as white or black, these conclusions are pretty suspect.

I very strongly suspect that the effect they're trying to measure is real and significant and of course racism is a thing (including blacks against blacks and blacks against whites for that matter), but that doesn't mean you can handwave this away by some astoundingly irrelevant assertion (if it's even true) that Jamal is a perfectly common name "from the African continent."

> When this study was done for job interviews, the test was always low class black names vs. obvious middle/upper class white names.

Bullshit. They used names like Jamal and Lakisha. Those both are names from the african continent, neither are 'ghetto' mispronunciations of everyday products.

How the hell did you get modded up? Ever been to the African continent? Those aren't African-continent names, those are ghetto names. Names from the African continent are nowhere close to the names they used. Names like Jamal and Lakisha are clearly not the same as Xolani, Busiswe, Tembelihle, Musi, Lindiwe, etc. Those who don't have ethnic names either have English words seen by locals as auspicious (Hope, Precious, Patience, Blessing, Virtue, etc) or have Anglo names (Richard, Elvis, Mike, George, etc).

Names of African-continent descent are easy to spot as they are rooted in some variant of either French or the older Bantu languages. You, and the idiots who voted you up, have obviously never been to Africa. Before you spout off like an expert you should perhaps go vacation there first.

> When this study was done for job interviews, the test was always low class black names vs. obvious middle/upper class white names.

Bullshit. They used names like Jamal and Lakisha. Those both are names from the african continent, neither are 'ghetto' mispronunciations of everyday products.

It is crazy what theories assholes will invent to deny that racism exists. The funny thing is that such denials end up as a sort of meta independent proof themselves.

You should probably contact this site on the origin of names. Let them know that Fred (short for Frederick) is not really an ancient Germanic name, but a modern American invention.

Are you joking?

Yes, in part. But proponents of eugenics will still need to disguise it to the public because Fischer or no Fischer, the public still associates eugenics with Nutsies.

"Eugenics" comes from Greek.

So does the name Eugene, which is rendered "Eugen" in German.

I'd murder four people just to have TTY in my name.

No need; just change your first name to Betty. This change may require SRS and HRT to be believable. (Only some faiths consider SRS to be murder, usually the same ones that ban condom use.)

Yep, I know about that. But don't you think they are simply alternates rather than one being right and the other wrong? J and Y (and I*) only became different letters more recently in history, as did U/V/W. So YHWH and JHVH are equally valid, as I see it. Add vowels to taste :)

Besides, we got plenty of this going on already in the subthread here.

Now to get back on subject, do you know if the Jo- in my name has any meaning as a word-particle? Or should I just keep telling people I'm Superman's dad? Using letter substitution, I'd expect Yoel to be an equivalent name, and it appears to be the case. Ironic that my name is a proclamation of faith when I no longer believe. Sorry mom and dad!

* remember Indiana Jones - "Iehovah" to get around the trap.

Names are NOT a modern art demonstration! Please don't name your kid after the sound a retard makes when he sees "pretty lady!" or any other made up meaningless sound. Names should mean something and not just sound "cool."

dARllll...........

or "retarded."

Other hypothesi: Middle brother of 3, Carl, Darl, and Earl; parents really love alphabetic order. Mother currently pregnant with Farl.

You're only weirded out because that was the name of one of the priests in the Exorcist. There's nothing inherently demonic about the name.