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Re:One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail e... by pedrocr on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:24PM (#24114789)
And the very place where that happened now has a database again but without any of that information in it. The lesson that no database at all can exist seems like the wrong one. Pretty much every EU country has a database of citizens that is also then used to define who can vote where. It works fine. Those same places also do a census as a completely different effort for different reasons.
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Re:One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail e... by agensaequivocum on Monday August 10, 2020 @07:45PM (#24115576)
We are not Europe and modern society has existed for but a brief moment in the long history of the world. I have no desire to give the government any more of an advantage over me. There's no reason to think that it will never be used in the future.
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Re:One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail e... by razakel on Monday August 10, 2020 @07:54PM (#24115657)
Name, sex, parents, place and date of birth. That's all the government needs to know about you to prove you're a citizen.

Anything beyond that is just market research.

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