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Ran into the same logic fighting to protect the secret ballot.
Many jurisdictions tie ballots to voters thru unique barcodes. Excellent for ballot tracking, accountability. Terrible for voter privacy.
Government argued that although data is collected, it's never looked at, so no violation of privacy.
Ditto prescanning ballots before election day. It's not "tabulation" until they run the final report. All the draft reports beforehand don't count.
These Kipling "just so stories" logic makes me nuts.
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Ran into the same logic fighting to protect the secret ballot.
Many jurisdictions tie ballots to voters thru unique barcodes. Excellent for ballot tracking, accountability. Terrible for voter privacy.
Government argued that although data is collected, it's never looked at, so no violation of privacy.
Ditto prescanning ballots before election day. It's not "tabulation" until they run the final report. All the draft reports beforehand don't count.
These Kipling "just so stories" logic makes me nuts.