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A comment on 191M US Voters’ Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Database. Parent comment

Re:191M US Voters’ Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Da... by krisdol on Monday December 28, 2015 @12:10PM (#10802097)
I don't expect who I voted for to be public record. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't believe this information is intended to be public record. There are risks of not only employers, but government workers and officials discriminating against someone based on their vote. The ballot should be as secret as possible.

edit: I pieced together information from other comments and noticed that who one voted for is not available, even through this breach. That's great. My comment here was addressing the breach as it was presented in this comment thread.

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Re:191M US Voters’ Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Da... by oxguy3 on Monday December 28, 2015 @05:22PM (#10803747)
Who you voted for isn't public, but if you voted in a primary, it is often public which party's primary you voted in. Voting in a particular party's primary doesn't necessarily mean you're an actual supporter of that party though. I've heard of plenty of cases where members of one party voted in the other party's primary because they wanted the less-electable candidate to be that party's nominee.
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