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nikibatts

(2,198 posts) Sat Jul 1, 2017, 12:08 PM Jul 2017

Did it occur to anyone that the mere request for voter rolls data is an act of voter suppression? [View all]

How many potential voters will now not register believing that their information will be shared with the alt-right and the most evil administration of our lifetime?

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Did it occur to anyone that the mere request for voter rolls data is an act of voter suppression? [View all] nikibatts Jul 2017 OP

more directly--Act of voter INTIMIDATION.... hlthe2b Jul 2017 #1

Absolutely. femmocrat Jul 2017 #2

Russia won't need to do any hacking to get that data. tanyev Jul 2017 #3

Uhh.....Isn't all that data already stored on Government computers now? nm MichMan Jul 2017 #6

LOL, You are right! femmocrat Jul 2017 #7

A lot of that data is public record. Igel Jul 2017 #10

Yep Solly Mack Jul 2017 #4

Some states make that information available online to anybody customerserviceguy Jul 2017 #5

yep, yep defacto7 Jul 2017 #8

It's the Russian way C_U_L8R Jul 2017 #9

Precisely. dalton99a Jul 2017 #13

Yes. smirkymonkey Jul 2017 #11

OMG. You are right. And it would be immigrants, minorities who would be afraid. Amaryllis Jul 2017 #12