Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims

Re:Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims by exabrial on Thursday December 15, 2016 @03:50PM (#13188259)

Voter registration is an interesting scenario too, but there's more than what meets the surface: There are multiple rights to protect. We all have the right to vote. We also have the right that your vote is of equal weight to everyone else's vote. We must also be able to ensure that votes are anonymous, to protect people from being persecuted. Finally, we also have the right to a secure election that only allows citizens to vote.

In my opinion, voter registration is a reasonable regulation to protect everything I mentioned above, as long as it does not intimidate, discriminate, inconvenience, or harass citizens.

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Re:Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims by woodruffw on Thursday December 15, 2016 @04:00PM (#13188341)

> as long as it does not intimidate, discriminate, inconvenience, or harass citizens

Historically, this is exactly what voter registration has been used for. You put it somewhere perpetually underfunded (especially in urban areas) like the DMV, and watch the results come in.

I don't disagree with the principle, but the current state of affairs makes it impossible to trust that voter registration laws are passed in good faith.

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Re:Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims by nuclear_eclipse on Thursday December 15, 2016 @05:23PM (#13189142)

> We also have the right that your vote is of equal weight to everyone else's vote.

That's clearly not true, when the votes of California residents are worth significantly fewer electoral votes per capita than in any other state. Until the electoral college is replaced with a straight popular vote, we will never have the right to equally-weighted votes.

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