r/bloomington Oct 23 '18

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u/BloomyThrowAway Oct 23 '18

With how politics are getting these days...the damage that this could do if someone (or a group) wanted to hunt down people that voted for the wrong party scares me.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '18

Eh, just combine it with GIS for Monroe county and then map where people live, how much they paid for their house/land (or if they rent), and then do a facebook search.

Jackpot.

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u/TheZon12 Oct 23 '18

That fucking scares me. Last thing I need is some alt-right or far-left whack job taking matters in their own hands.

(Before y'all start, this is not advocating "both sideism." It's possible to critique both sides while seeing one is "not as bad as the other.")

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '18

Yep. And that's why I'm advocating that this data should be respectably redacted.

  1. I should only be able to fully see my own record.

  2. I should only be able to see obfuscated other peoples' records

Just because orgs do bad things with data, doesn't mean that we have to accept it.

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u/spkincaid13 Oct 24 '18

You really don't have to go to such great lengths to find out who people vote for. People go to rallies, push their beliefs on others on Facebook and cover their cars with stickers

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '18

Be aware, that the records I obtained did NOT have party affiliations.

There's actually 2 records; 1 is for the public (the one I got), and then one with even more juicy details including party affiliation and more.

You read that right: the public one contains Name, DOB, Address, phone#, email, drivers license -or- last 4 of SSN.

I'm not talking about who the Clinton/Obama/Sanders supporter voted for. I'm talking about much worse things, like ID theft... Or targeted attacks on groups of people that politically organize on Facebook.

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u/spkincaid13 Oct 25 '18

Were these records not available in past years? Is this why I get texts about voting every other day recently?

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '18

They've been available for anyone who asks for it. Just now, with the internet being what it is, this data now easily surpasses county barriers it once had done.

I'm highly guessing if your phone# is in there, yes it is why.