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Re:The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40 by stordoff on Sunday October 21, 2018 @09:21AM (#18267849)
In the UK, as far as I know of those only marriage records is open. Police records can be obtained by your employer, but even then most minor (sentence less than 4 years) offenses are eventually considered spent and not disclosed to most roles. The electoral role (addresses) is open by default, but you can opt-out (though can still be used for certain narrow purposes), and as far as I know there is no way to check if someone voted (I've never heard of it happening, and searching doesn't give any information about it)
Re:The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40 by walshemj on Sunday October 21, 2018 @01:31PM (#18269050)
You can opt out of allowing use of the electoral role for marketing - you can't opt out of political use.

You can also not be on the role but you cant vote in that case.