Comment by duped
1 day ago
> 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.