Comment by y33t
2 days ago
Could you provide me some links or background on this? I did a couple of lazy searches and didn't find anything. I knew they tracked that you voted, but not who/what you voted for, if that's what you're saying, unless you mean party affiliation.
Join SSN column with Driver License table
Join that with Drivers license -> Voter registration number.
Search the voter records (if the states still have them) with the issued ballot number to that voter registration number and bingo. You got voting records.
Think most states discard actual ballots over time though so maybe old data might be gone. Republican states garbage as they are probably stored this election for some reason. I bet you can guess what that reason is.
> Search the voter records (if the states still have them) with the issued ballot number to that voter registration number and bingo. You got voting records.
To be clear, you can’t find out how someone voted this way. You can only find out if they submitted a ballot, not what the ballot said.
Why not? A ballot number is a unique identifier that can theoretically be tied to a voter id. This is how I recall seeing it work when I was part of a ballot recount. Maybe im remembering wrong but I do clearly remember the process of voting in this last election. In my state, you are required to sign a slip with the ballot number written on it. The slip is then compared to the signature on record(done during registration). This completes the sign in process. Upon successful completion of this process, that slip is cut into two (there are two copies of the ballot number on the slip) and one copy is handed to the poll worker who programs the machine with that ballot number. If the machines produce a paper record(as my state does), you can just match the paper record which should contain the ballot number with the voter id.
The issue is that these are likely different databases and would require active participation by the states. Blue states will probably find a way to resist. (Maybe destroy the voting records quicker?) Although they can probably still find party registration.
Sure, but oodles of people are publicly members of one party or another. It isn't terribly hard to figure out who lots of people voted for. I don't think that some false positives are something that these people worry about.
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> Search the voter records (if the states still have them) with the issued ballot number to that voter registration number and bingo. You got voting records.
I believe this involves a court order and to physically access the ballots in most states, where the ballots haven't been destroyed.
I would be very surprised if such a database existed in most states and if it was easy for someone from the federal government to make a query without many hoops and ladders.
In my opinion I think the only thing that has prevented this thus far is the data being held in separate databases maintained by separate entities as well as the rapid destruction of old voting records by states(some states still use DRE: Direct Recording ELectronic so they just wipe the memory card).
Blue states will probably resist, trump will probably threaten loss of federal funding(if he hasn't already taken it away by then) and the states will either comply or resist by doing things like rapidly destroying records.
What are "voting records"?
Are you suggesting that how I voted is stored somewhere by my Social Security Number?
My registered party is public record and yours probably is too. Most the real election for high level office happens in the primaries, so in most states if you want your slice of influence everyone knows roughly what party you chose, albeit with rough accuracy.
In some states maybe you can do primaries without registering.
Nope, they are in completely separate databases owned by different departments. Im saying DOGE has the expertise to do JOIN commands as well as the ability to rapidly get the Databases together.
Germany, 1933.