The so-called privacy freaks who refused to cough up voter roll data have been awfully quiet when you’d expect them to be caterwauling. After all, it was your privacy that concerned them. That’s what they said. We can’t give up voter roll data to the Feds to ensure it’s clean; there’s information in there and stuff and junk.
My own state refused on these grounds, and like the rest, they claim we have clean rolls and elections, and there’s no need. And now we can claim to be a bulwark protecting you from a general government that, if we’re being honest, already has access to all the information they are claiming to protect.
Your Social Security number. Your driver’s license number. Anyone filed their taxes electronically in the last ten years? They have that. The states also hide massive fraud costing taxpayers trillions, so anyway. [Related: 94,610 Potential Out-Of-State Double Registrants on NH Voter Rolls]
It makes you wonder what these states are hiding in their voter lists. It also, as teased, begs the question: why aren’t they flipping out over this?
In the letter, DHS outlined what it believes is a possible violation of the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (DPPA) by the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a nonprofit organization that helps states maintain the integrity of their voter rolls. …
According to Mullin, ERIC “lobbies states to sign a contract that requires the disclosure of the private data of individuals who were not registered to vote and therefore certainly could not be in need of voter list maintenance. The data fields disclosed include Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers.”
Later, ERIC turned over such sensitive data to at least one nonprofit organization, the Center for Election Innovation and Research – which has received millions in funding from a foundation founded by Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg, …
The Zuckerberg’s are linked to a separate scandal involving large donations, or maybe we could call them investments, to election operations. Zuckerbucks. More than half the states have since banned such “investments,” but you can still smell the stink, and it’s all over this.
The Justice Department is demanding that two nonprofits tied to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turn over records of their use of sensitive voter data obtained through state motor vehicle departments after the Homeland Security Department raised concerns last month that the arrangement violated privacy laws.
While there has been some light reporting, the aforementioned privacy fanatics don’t seem all that concerned. If any, it is focused on the DOJ and Homeland, but aren’t they pursuing the same sort of privacy concerns that kept so many states from coughing up voter list data to the feds?
A third party is accused of selling it to so-called non-profits, and you can hear the crickets singing across the fruited plains.
I should add that my state doesn’t share electronic data with ERIC, but it is the only state in New England that doesn’t, and I could add New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania to the list of states near me that do. I’d have to travel to Ohio or West Virginia to find one that doesn’t (after mine).
Lots of blue states, but no outrage.
So, if it’s not about privacy?
