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White House Releases Sensitive Personal Info From Voters Concerned About Privacy (vox.com)
Huge_UID shares an article from Vox:
The White House just responded to concerns it would release voters' sensitive personal information by releasing a bunch of voters' sensitive personal information. Last month, the White House's "election integrity" commission sent out requests to every state asking for all voters' names, party IDs, addresses, and even the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, among other information. The White House then said this information would be made available to the public. A lot of people did not like the idea, fearing that their personal information could be made public. So some sent emails to the White House, demanding that it rescind the request. This week, the White House decided to make those emails from concerned citizens public through the commission's new website... It didn't censor any of the personal information -- such as names, email addresses, actual addresses, and phone numbers -- included in those emails.
Some of the emails also included the commenter's place of employment -- though at least one commenter helpfully informed the White House that their voter info was available at Goatse. But the voting comission is now also facing new lawsuits from the ACLU, Public Citizen, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, McClatchy reported on Monday, noting that "Trump's voting commission has told states to hold off on sharing the data until after a judge's ruling in a lawsuit."
Some of the emails also included the commenter's place of employment -- though at least one commenter helpfully informed the White House that their voter info was available at Goatse. But the voting comission is now also facing new lawsuits from the ACLU, Public Citizen, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, McClatchy reported on Monday, noting that "Trump's voting commission has told states to hold off on sharing the data until after a judge's ruling in a lawsuit."
..to not give a fuck about your privacy.
And, does it really makes any difference?
You knew you were voting for this.
NOT!
Well, it did happen. Calling things you don't like "bullshit" or "fake news" doesn't magically make them go away.
Am I missing something? What the hell? Last four of social address?
Oh Bartles, you still believe there were 30 million illegals voting, don't you?
Tell you what, why don't you march into Bannon's office and tell him to stop crapping up the joint? Even COBRA did better job at world domination.
I think the saying goes, "Never ascribe to malice what can be more readily be explained by incompetence."
This administration reminds us, as with many things, there is a choice (c).
(c) All of the above.
This. I live in Seattle, and my vote hasn't counted a single time since we switched to voting by mail. I was hoping Trump would expose the massive fraud here.
Of you vote the wrong way, why should you expect your vote to count?
One of the pieces of information that the Trump administration is demanding from the states is how voters voted. They want to know if you voted for Trump or one of his opponents.
Let that sink in for a second. Imaging the Slashdot comments section if a President Clinton or President Obama demanded this same information from the states. Remember, the Constitution gives the power over all US elections to the states.
You are welcome on my lawn.
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This. Votes for Republicans are thrown in the trash here, thankfully.
One of the pieces of data requested for every voter is party affiliation: https://www.theguardian.com/us...
I'll let you do the math.
Certainly your comment is.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
Sure let's hear what you have to say. What did you say? You don't want people to have access to your private personal information? Let's see here... okay so we'll go ahead and just release some of that publicly for you. Don't complain. We haven't released EVERYTHING on you, just yet...
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Agreed. That is important.
Extrapolating from MIT's 10,000 voter study, the number was about 5.5 million.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Since Woodward and Bernstein, the media has been more about making the news rather than reporting on it. That is a good thing.
...for people to start throwing molotov cocktails at Trump's properties. Seriously, I think stuff like that is just around the corner.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
And voting isn't even the danger.
Census. House seats. Electoral college votes.
Can't imagine why California is so uppity about verification.
Goalpost move noted.
You didn't have a problem with people losing their jobs for signing petitions/donating money to causes. Party affiliation is optional at registration time, petition and money lists aren't optional.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
I know in many areas votes for Trump were thrown in the trash. I'm glad that we here in WA did that.
Doesn't the Republican party have that information already? It should be simple to deduce, no paranoia required.
What in the name of the good fuck are you talking about?
It does... for Republicans.
And that is damn why I'm glad WA votes by mail. Those votes the wrong way just disappear.
Correcting votes is a good thing.
So what. Are you suggesting that the GOP should/would use party information for state affairs?
Extrapolating from MIT's 10,000 voter study, the number was about 5.5 million.
You mean making up numbers. And as usual, falsely claiming legitimacy from somebody else who actually repudiated your fabrication.
That makes us progressive.
In order to be tolerant, you must be intolerant of intolerance. Throwing votes in the trash for Trump is a good thing. That is helping the people. Their kind shouldn't be allowed to vote.
And progressivism requires us to throw votes on the trash that aren't.
Is there a specific factual issue with the summary you object to?
Agreed. In my neighborhood here in Seattle it's about 60/40 support for Hillary, but only 14% of the votes against her were counted. Makes me proud.
Exactly that.
"If you want my personal information, you can go look at Goatse"
They request the available public records - you should expect no privacy for a public record.
That is awesome since it means that the vast majority of Trump supporters had their votes thrown in the trash.
They made the news, and they proved why we need to throw the votes from people like NIxon or Trump in the trash.
They proved why the media must be biased and try to be the news rather than just reporting on it.
This. Incorrect votes shouldn't count.
Direct link to messages, yes they are almost all childish it seems.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/comments-received-june-29-through-july-11-2017.pdf
This. Votes for the wrong people shouldn't be counted.
Perhaps the Republicana should.look at the current t office holder for the source of most of their problems. Of late they could also look at the idiot eldest son of his
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I'm past thinking it's incompetence, it's definitely evil.
The Russians hacked the ELECTORAL ROLLS. Why? What use would the electoral rolls be to the Russians? It's obvious Trump's team would want that data, since it would let them micro-target voters, and now Trump wants that data to design election laws minimizing opposition votes.
It's pretty obvious that the data would have been ordered by team Trump's, that order would have gone to the Russians, who hacked that election data and passed it back to team Trump.
Russia provided the hackers, team Trump provided the need for that data.
Do Republicans think Trump will ensure only Republicans win elections? Because I'm not even sure Putin won't simply switch his hackers to whoever is the most Putin compliant next time.
It's evil.
I'm not seeing any email addresses exposed.
And it looks like a lot of the names are fake, unless names like "Ann Onymous" and "No Fit Wit" are real names.
If those people worked for the government, it is wrong to lose a job over most political things that don't directly impact them doing their job. Private company, no such barrier exists. Free market blah blah. FOADIAF
Were you actually born stupid, or did you merely drop out of Mummy head-first onto the pavement?
Yeah, and how dare anybody suggest that Confederate secessionists committed treason either!
Sorry, HornWumpus, but Eich was making a choice to have the state use its authority to compel others, neither he nor you nor Roy Moore nor Kim Davis get to pretend otherwise.
And the states that banned recognition of any similar union made it impossible for any compromise at all.
It is white privilege that expects all votes to be counted. That is racist.
I remember when, not so long ago, people were making fun of presidents and other politicians for being technologically illiterate, and perhaps not even knowing what a “mouse” was. Well, I have to give it to the current administration. Not only are they masters of the technology (databases, social media, etc.), they’ve now officially embraced one of the latest social trends: doxing!
The times, they are a-changing...
Correct, and that is why voting by mail is so awesome. There are just too many steps to "lose" votes.
Its been a while. I know there's plenty of knock-off sites, but damnit, the original goatse is the real goatse as far as I'm concerned.
Yes. Go read the actual request the commission sent to the states. It should he readily obvious to those that aren't susceptible to brainwashing.
Oh, you're so cute when you try to do statistics.
Stop torturing numbers son.
The Trump Administration is a constant unfolding disaster. Fuck the spineless Republican Party for nominating this assclown, fuck anybody who voted for him for pissing on the Presidency and fuck the spineless Democrat Party for nominating Hillary Clinton and making this shit show possible.
Sometimes I think the American public deserves better than this but, then again, you reap what you sow. This shit show wouldnâ(TM)t be possible without the fucking clueless masses not demanding more from politicians and political parties.
In Trump I think the average American who canâ(TM)t be bothered to read a book or pickup a fucking newspaper is getting exactly the kind of a President they deserve. A fucking incompetent clown.
but kudos for the media for following their agenda.
This. Influencing the narrative is the entire reason the media exists.
During the PRIMARIES you stupid idiot because you're voting for the political party candidate!
And that still isn't tied to your vote because you can (and I have) elect to NOT mark certain offices where a single candidate is running for the office in the party.
NO information is recorded about you during a general election other than you VOTED. Your party registration is part of your voting registration but A - many people in the US don't register for a party and B - party registration isn't tied to how you'll vote in a GENERAL election, let alone your ballot.
Newsflash you idiot - if the GOP wanted to hunt down all the DNC voters and throw them in jail that information is ALREADY public knowledge!
My god man - how brainwashed are you?!
Haven't your posts been childish long before Trump ran for office?
So that can't be the reason.
And p.s. I'm apolitical. Left wing and right wings are opposites sides of a used maxpiad, you all have brain rot.
They did not release voter info they released the email that people sent to a public email address. After seeing the headline was from Vox, a lower IQ version of Infowars, I guess we know why they made up the headline.
If you read the article, you would have seen that a mistake was made in the website. It was not a malicious act. Yet, you and other posters act like this is some vast conspiracy against privacy. I can see why you are worried about that, since when Obama and other liberals were in power, they did this constantly. For example, you seem to the whole NSA reading all the email thing. Funny that.
Or, the abuse of IRS to go after political enemies: https://aclj.org/free-speech/o...
The otter convient fact is that the voter roles are being looked into because there are wide scale voter fraud. To get a good handle on which party is doing this, ask yourself, if you are feeling patricianly honest, which party seems to always oppose stricter evidence for voting? If you believe that your party is clean, then why not make sure that people actually live where they say they, actually be a citizen of the country, or hell, even be alive. Only one party works to thwart ANY efforts to clean up the voter rolls, while offering no solutions of their own.
But, I suspect you will not be honest. Nazis never are.
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
You are talking about the phone book, or just feeling hysterical today? Just sayin'
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
I would not really call people who use violence to intimidate others people. They are something less.
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
WTF is wrong with your government? That sort of shit would bring down a government in any sane first-world democracy.
True freedom.
You act like that is not a piece of information that would be necessary to clean up the voter rolls. You offer no solution to clean them up.
You act like Obama did not persecute people with government agencies for being in the wrong party. Where was your rage then? The answer was, you had none. Nazis never do.
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
You are right. People voting the wrong way shouldn't have their votes counted.
Per usual, knee jerk liberal pejoratives are modded up for no reason. There is no evidence given that the administration does not give a fuck about America....in fact a strong case could be made for the opposite with strong efforts to ensure that jobs staid in country, examination of treaties to make sure that they were in the interest of the US, not other nations etc.
We can not have an intelligent debate about things if you keep modding up the least intelligent comments.
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
Two of the items on the demand list from the voter fraud "commission" are 1) party affiliation, and 2) voting record. The possibility of deanonymization of votes in several states has already been proven. In fact, there are data brokers selling personal information of conservative voters. For more information about this, I suggest checking EFF's site. This has been an issue of theirs for a while.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Do you not know how email campaigns work? Oh course they need to have people's names on them so they can demonstrate they didn't just randomly generate a bunch of emails. I don't think you thought that through.
Have you ever used one of those types of sites? Generally you subscribe to a mailing list about issues you're interested in, you get random emails about such issues with a link to send a letter to your representative (how many people bother to keep track of their government's contact info?), click on the link and you get a form with your contact info and a letter already written out. You can edit the content or send it as is. Most people are too lazy to edit so they send it as is.
The only issue is going to the trouble of collecting it from all the states and putting it into one lump, which might be on-line. All the political parties and their subcontractors already have all this info and have augmented it with contributions from Google and Facebook.
As usual, the only group that is left out is the general public.
Releasing the emails may be another issue, but it would have to eventually be classed as public government records anyway too.
Most Trumpers prefer Putin to Pelosi / Shumer / Waters / Feingold / Harris etcetcetc the entire nibberizing slut-bitch swamp. Most would prefer to see them butchered out ... along with their fellow-traveler petite-libcomz. You aaren't one a' those Soros-financed slut-bitches are you palsy ?
"Voting record" simply means if you voted or not. It is a highly important data to determine if there is fraudulent voting going on. For instance the same person might be registered in two states. If the "voting record" for one state showed they voted in 8 of the last 10 elections, but not the last 2, and the "voting record" for the other state showed they only voted in the last 2 elections, that is a probable case of them moving and the registration for the first state not being purged. If they voted in the last 2 elections in BOTH states, then that is a sign they maintained their registration in one or the other states illegally.
It does if you are a republican.
It is supposed to be "White House Releases Sensitive Personal Info ______Of______ Voters Concerned About Privacy". Just because you are linking to an article which has a grammatical error in the title, doesn't mean you should keep the error. That is, unless the post itself is about the error.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
You act like Obama did not persecute people with government agencies for being in the wrong party.
Yeah, the military bombed a wedding. Oh my. That's rich, how the GOP regularly lurched from complaining that Obama was too weak in his war-mongering, and then jumped to whining about him doing it.
Oh wait, I suppose you meant the IRS scandal that resulted in nothing more than a partisan Congressional screed that demonstrated exactly how it was nothing more than a partisan witch-hunt the same as Benghazi, or Whitewater. Meanwhile, you ignore or downplay real instances like Iran-Contra or the fake Iraqi WMDs reports.
Where was your rage then? The answer was, you had none. Nazis never do.
I'm not enraged, I'm not even disappointed in you, but I am disdainful of your resorting to such a comparison. No shame, nothing but false rage.
It's just the sort of thing Nazis always do.
Could you cite what study you are talking about?
You really think that's the worse we'll see? I see darker times ahead I'm afraid.
Study supports Trump: 5.7 million noncitizens may have cast illegal votes (June 19, 2017)
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
re noncitizens voting illegally in U.S. elections.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
we're not "suffering" under Obama anymore.
And, no, nothing more to add.
Go to www.hitta.se for all individuals and get basic information.
Go to www.allabolag.se and get all companies with owners.
Call Skatteverket and get the tax information about anybody, and they aren't allowed to ask who you are and why you want it.
I am just asking. By the EU definition of sensitive personal data, those things arent considered sensitive. They are considered just plain personal data. Sensitive personal data are eg your sexual preferences or your criminal convictions.
Besides your batshit crazy conspiracy theories, what exactly is your point? Obama did it as well so Trump doing it is just peachy?
A - many people in the US don't register for a party and B - party registration isn't tied to how you'll vote in a GENERAL election, let alone your ballot.
Yeah, i'm pretty sure there's no correlation there.
Boooo! Boooo! OBAMA! Booo!
Dead voters don't care about their privacy. Maybe the Russian trolls sent by Putin registered them.
Liberals don't think we're buying this bullshiat, do they? They're starting to believe their own propaganda I guess.
Aww, RWNJ triggered by the truth about his hero, poot widdle facist, run away to your Faux news safe space, and let the adults talk.
Let me guess, you and your yes men also used to work for Microsoft.
Sigh. Telling me to go and read something is not very helpful. What specific detail are you objecting to?
Trollicious !! Tell me more !!!
From the link:
"The research organization Just Facts, a widely cited, independent think tank led by self-described conservatives and libertarians, revealed its number-crunching in a report on national immigration."
...after all, they were ok with CNNs witchhunt of the video dude from reddit and the threat of doxxing him.
I live in Texas and can look up every voting district and look up every single registered voter name and their address.
Did any of you realize that Vox left out a little detail and actively deceived the readers? For those who live under rock, the data they received and reposted is public data and searchable by any goon with a computer and keyboard by nearly every state website. Some states allow the public release of the last four of your social. So it is okay for your state to vomit this information, yet when the federal government, who already spies on every fucking communication made by phone and computer, releases it, it becomes a privacy matter. We civil libertarians have been bitching about this for almost two decades. Where the hell have you all been? Oh that's right. This is a partisan issue drummed up by the media and now you all care. If anything, the Trump administration just made you all aware of something that has been going on for a long time. Welcome to the fight people. Now it is time to put your individual states back in check.
What occurs in a story about direct publishing of names and other actual personal info?
Deflection, and every attempt to change the subject you can imagine. This is an interesting trend we have here. The amount of deflection is ramped up with the provable veracity of the story. This is not consistent with the meme of the intrepid and privacy focused Slashdot user. It is consistent with some other online trends.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
There is no other way to put this: This is an ASSHOLE move by an ASSHOLE 'administration' being led by an ASSHOLE 'President' who continually demonstrates through actions that they don't give a flying FUCK about the average citizen, they only care about their agendas and their corporate and 1%-er cronies. Finding that they've been in bed with Russia the whole time and throwing the entire administration out on their ear can't come soon enough. 2020 elections can't come soon enough. How are you Trump-supporting idiots liking him and his minions now? You all like your privacy AT LEAST AS MUCH AS I DO, and they just took a BIG STEAMING DUMP all over the entire CONCEPT of your privacy, HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL?
Voter fraud occurs, and accusations have been made in the past. The type of voter fraud is the question.
-Donald Drumpf claims that millions of illegal immigrants voted. Previous studies have categorically disputed that claim. It is likely that his commission will find the same result.
-Absentee ballot voting, and change of address voting issues have been documented to be minimal. They would not likely withstand a recount.
-Hacking the voting machines is a real possibility. It has been clearly documented by HBO in a movie called Hacking Democracy.
-One could also claim that politicians invalidate voters for various reasons such as felonies. This disenfranchises minority populations who are more likely to be imprisoned.
-Finally Gerrymandering is a legal form of fraud, where the politicians pick the voters, not the other way around. John Oliver covered the topic in detail.
And all ballots have no personal information and are returned in private UNMARKED envelopes which go into a general ballot box.
You know that too.
Yes there's an outer envelope with the return address and signed to validate that the voter mailing in the ballot is the registered voter.
So are you telling me that the state is recording the ballots and who voted for whom? Which states Ratzo?
has been covering voting shenanigans since 2000. He spoke to WMNF(.org) news on 6 July about his investigation into this farce of an integrity project. His website.
"To stop the terrorists."
It says we're in deep fucking trouble.
Donald Duck as president is a symptom of an underlying problem of multi generational mis-education and brainwashing.
Critical thinking is critically needed, as is criticism of everything. Everything needs to be called into question.
Somebody likes the current system, as bad as it is, somebody makes billions from it, and have spent years developing it.
Have you ever heard of a phone book. It included things like Name, address, phone number(analogous to email address).
This is not the privacy breach you want it to be. This is all very public information.
Public information already readily available about most Americans includes:
Name
Age
Address
Phone Number
Email/social media accounts.
Home ownership and price, mortgage...
Arrest and court records.
Political party registration.
Voter activity.(Whether or not you cast a ballot in an election, when, and where.)
Automobile registrations, and in some places driver's license information.
the list goes on and these are all legal public records.
There are of course the stolen / leaked information that aren't supposed to be public but are now often widely known:
Medical records
Social security numbers
Credit card numbers
I'm not, in this post, arguing either way whether or not this information should be public. I am saying that what the White House released is all, already, legal public information.
So this entire article is and any outrage over the matter is entirely pointless.
From the link:
Its investigation found that Virginia removed more than 5,500 noncitizens from voter lists, including 1,852 people who had cast more than 7,000 ballots. The people volunteered their status, most likely when acquiring driver’s licenses. The Public Interest Legal Foundation said there are likely many more illegal voters on Virginia’s rolls who have never admitted to being noncitizens.
Perhaps scrubbing the voter rolls would be a good thing...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Well obviously.
We can't blame the previous administration for anything. That's racist!
If you know where someone is from (specific area), it's pretty easy to figure out the first 6 numbers of that persons SS#. By releasing the last 4 numbers, you are giving out the only personally identifiable part of one of the most sought after forms of identification to identity thieves.
Keep up the good work, White House!
"The Public Interest Legal Foundation said there are likely many more ..."
Why should we consider the numbers from an 'investigation' of a group of conservative lawyers seriously, lawyers who make it their job, and are payed, to promote the idea of voter fraud.
https://publicinterestlegal.or...
Uh, the State removed 5500 NONCITIZEN registered voters, and at least 1,852 of those ILLEGAL VOTERS actually cast ballots. You keep trying to pitch this as a "right wing nut jobs" kind of thing, but this is hard, factual actions taken by States. Actual REAL illegal votes cast (7,000 in Virginia alone). Documented. Get off the "conservative nut job" talking points. Non-citizen voting is a real thing. Or do you want to disenfranchise your fellow citizens? Do you want it to be "it's not the votes that count, but who counts the vote"?
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
It wasnt that they were publishing voter information, they posted the emails that they received over the concerns about the collection of it. It even stated right on the website: "Any member of the public wishing to submit written comments for the Commission’s consideration may do so via email at ElectionIntegrityStaff@ovp.eop.gov. Please note that the Commission may post such written comments publicly on our website, including names and contact information that are submitted." So DUH....People never read and just react. This story is just more BS.
To me is looks as if this story has dragged in a bunch of astroturfers.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
Is how dems cry about election meddling and the sanctity of the process but suddenly won't help affirm the sanctity of the voting process. Certainly if someone hacked the election you'd only find the evidence by investigating it. But no there more concerned they'll get caught for there own meddling.
Uh, the State removed 5500 NONCITIZEN registered voters, and at least 1,852 of those ILLEGAL VOTERS actually cast ballots. You keep trying to pitch this as a "right wing nut jobs" kind of thing, but this is hard, factual actions taken by States. Actual REAL illegal votes cast (7,000 in Virginia alone). Documented. Get off the "conservative nut job" talking points. Non-citizen voting is a real thing.
Nope. The Commonwealth of Virginia merely purged a few voters, based on an arbitrary process without actually checking their citizenship status in a robust and rigorous manner. They did nothing to show that the votes were illegal.
Let me know when Virginia actually prosecutes these people, or invalidates any elections.
Otherwise, you're just being a nutjob, pretending that you care.
Or do you want to disenfranchise your fellow citizens? Do you want it to be "it's not the votes that count, but who counts the vote"?
That's what Virginia is doing, by removing people without checking. Their process already had documented errors. Not to mention their gerrymandering which is impactful even if they don't play games with the voting process.
But hey, show you care, write a sternly worded letter to Kris Kobach and complain that HE claimed people were dead when they weren't, denied people's legal citizenship, and otherwise compromised the integrity of the process.
Not going to do it? Well, then, back to the peanut farm with you.
This smells like Trump's asshole or one of his asshole buddies' asshole.
And note the daughter's name of "I wank a Trump" so it's no surprise he's a taboo lover, incest, golden showers, and who knows what else.
The threat of impeachment doesn't phase him because nobody wants a Pope-ocracy as we'll have with Pence as president. The solution to our problems is far more complex than can be solved in the courts and Congress in 3.5 years or less.
We're fucked by the asshole you elected.
So you make a submission to a government inquiry and you expect it to be kept private?
That's now how open government works, dear. Submissions and testimonies and the people who make them are published so we know who said what to our elected representatives.
You can try to make an anonymous submission, but don't expect anyone to take it seriously. Credibility is attached to the person making comment.
I choose to comment anonymously here and my comments are usually treated with indifference because I haven't connected them to my personal reputation. That's my choice.
The only time they care is if it's not going to a correct target.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
The page you linked is concerning the 2008 election not the 2016 election. What proof or scientifically defensibly study do you have about 2016?
The underlying study by Jesse T. Richman, Gulshan A. Chattha and David C. Earnest found only five non-citizens self reported as voting in 2008 that they could verify out of a study sample size of 32,800 people.
If you are interested in reading the actual 2014 study concerning the 2008 election based on polling 32,800 people in 2008 and 55,400 in 2010 here is a link:
https://ww2.odu.edu/~jrichman/...
Here is a link to the lead author, Jesse Richman, of that study saying that the washingtontimes.com article is deceptive if anyone believes it's concerning 2016.
https://fs.wp.odu.edu/jrichman/2017/01/27/i-do-not-support-the-washington-times-piece/
If you want to express an extrmist ideology, you should be prepared to be outted for it.
No "sensitive" information was released. Everything on your voter registration is public record. If you put it on the form, it becomes public.
"Public record" means the exact opposite of "sensitive."
Not "Trump's voting commission"
The whole issue of Voter Fraud is itself a fraud upon the nation.
There is no voter fraud. No credible information, no evidence, there's not even a first principles reason to believe that it might exist. You know what does exist? Right wing talking heads, bloviating about the matter to fill air time. And Trump.
You know what else exists? Evidence by the truckload that eligible voters don't vote. In huge numbers! That's real but the right wing talking heads don't care. Their heads are empty except for their intense desire to matter. They cannot rile up the base by coming up with viable ways to increase voter participation. Oh no, solving real problems is for rubes!
Yet the Right will insist upon a huge, expensive, bureaucratic investigation into voter fraud. It's Big Government from the supposedly Little Government people. And it will all amount to nothing. It's a fraud and an abuse of the hard-won dollars of taxpayers. We might as well propose a Blue Ribbon Panel on the existence of leprechauns, unicorns or the yeti.
Get ready to buy a lot of Serious People steak dinners, fine hotel rooms and unlimited expense accounts.
Funny, you took the time to call names, but not defend your argument. The facts say that is has been in office for about half a year and has had several policy successes. His failures have include:
Having an immigration policy stopped by a Hawaii judge who did not ground his ruling in the constitution. We know this to be the case because the supreme court overturned it unanimously.
Being embroiled in an investigation for collusion with Russia. Most of the charges have been disproven, and there are several stories indicating this. There are also tapes of various DNC operatives admitting in what they thought were undocumented comments, that they are doing this for ratings and to discredit. They admit, there is nothing there. The new story of Trumps son meeting with the Russians looking for dirt is true. However, there is no evidence of quid pro quo. However, as the issues are being looked into, it does turn out that the Clinton campaign also used foreign sources, at times WITH quid pro quo. I will go out on a limb that you either do not know this or are so addled in your thinking that you fail to see your personal bias leading to ignorance.
So, there really is not a dumpster fire say as you say. You could not rationally make the argument because in reality it is not true, outside your imagination and that of other people who have gone insane with hatred. Be better.
So Again, why is this modded up?
Hear that? That was the sound of your ass being kicked.
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
Fair enough: you're fine with party affiliation being public data.
Can't have it both ways.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
This is NOT the USA where I agreed to be a citizen!!!
The ONLY purpose this serves is to corporations and covert billionaire/millionaire operations!
There is NO need for this info to be freely public.
And the fucking stupid politicians in office wonder why there are terrorist organizations, and revolutionary revolts!
What makes this an okay thing, yet Trump is getting away with hiding his private info?!
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
What ACTUALLY apparently happened is that COMMENT emails were published, NOT the info from individual voters.
Further, the replies to said requests for State's voters' info were that only info that is already public would be submitted.
Any SSN or month and day of birth are NOT to be released.
Yet, your full name, birth year, and voter party and status (not who you voted-for) are included.
Still further, most, if not all, states are awaiting a decision by a judge before releasing anything.
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
Reality is calling. It says it misses you. Please come back to it.
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.