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hlthe2b

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7. NO. Public identification can lead to life-long harrassment or even discrimination.
Thu Apr 18, 2024, 02:23 PM
Apr 18

Light is no "disinfectant" in this case, but rather enables those with malign or pathological motivations.

On that score, one thing I really love about Colorado is that knowing this, they allow voters to register as an ANONYMOUS voter such that their registrations cannot be obtained short of a court order. You have to appear in person and complete an affidavit and the expectation is that only those who face serious risk (e.g., stalking) will do so, but I was among hundreds at my own registrar's office when then Trump-aligned Kris Kolbach tried to obtain all that information for his highly questionable voter registration "study." (The latter had very few protections for the data collected which upset a number of CO voter registrars as well as the then SOS, so they took great pains to inform Colorado voters of that risk. )

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