Re:Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims
by gohrt on Thursday December 15, 2016 @04:34PM
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Maintain a single-unified opt-out, meticulously maintained, centralized voter registration database, is at risk for authoritarian abuse for cataloging and targeting people.
Why should Federal government care who lives in Florida, aside from a population estimate for the Electoral College? That's Florida's business.
Correct.
The US Govt and many others already maintain a complete list of all persons, living and dead, including useful attributes like citizenship, current address, age (aka eligibility to vote), in real-time.
Maintaining separate, duplicate, opt-in, haphazardly maintained, patchwork voter registration databases is wasteful, error-prone, and only serves the purpose of disenfranchising undesirables.