[ale] OT: Go Vote!

[James P. Kinney III]

And I though _I_ had paranoid moments. :)

When they slide the card in at the registration table I do expect they
keyed the card with voter record. That, of course will key the vote with
the voter record and thus allow complete tracking electronically of
people to their voting patters. 

Think of it as government sponsored market research.

<puking all manner of sensibility and freedoms>

Absentee ballots have your name on them.

The old punch card ballots had a unique number that linked the card back
to the voter.

But now we have a much faster <two-handed fisting of the public
freedoms> system with all of the records completely electronic. Now
there is a commercially viable electronic record that can (and will) be
sold to what ever company is willing to purchase the lists. "They" will
contract out a company to "sanitize" the voting records for sale. That
company will have full access to names and voting patterns. That raw
data _will_ get sold to groups like EquiFax to complete the citizen
profiles.

I'm really not cynical. I just pay too much attention to the weakness of
humans and the bloodsuckers conduct themselves. 

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 14:36 -0400, Robert Reese wrote:
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> On 7/18/2006 at 4:39 PM aaron wrote:
> 
> >In fact, my whole family and most of my friends are voting absentee this
> >year, 
> >since Georgia's restrictions of sworn cause for doing so were recently
> >lifted 
> >under HB 529. The repub-lie-cons of the 2006 Georgia Assembly eased
> >absentee 
> >ballot requirements as a sideline item of their partisan, phony ID Jim
> >Crow 
> >legislation that was designed to steal the right to vote from over 670,000 
> >legitimate U.S. citizens in our State, almost exclusively targeting the 
> >elderly, rural, poor and minority demographics. The reason for the added 
> 
>  [snip]
> 
> Oh, it gets worse, Aaron.  Do you remember a little SCOTUS ruling that backhanded the 5th, whereby you had to give the nice police person your name?  Now it's led in several forms to a national ID?  Basically it will eventually eliminate your right to not have ID.  Why do you think a voter ID card is important, aside from allegations of making it difficult to vote for those folks you've eloquently mentioned?  It's to ensure that if you exercise your right to vote that you get positively ID'd by the feds.
> 
> Couple that with the interesting habit of poll workers of sliding that yellow microchipped card into a reader/writer after ID'ing you and before giving it to you to cast your vote.  What *exactly* do you think they put on those cards?  I'm not sure myself, and have half a mind to just *keep* my card when I go vote for the runoff election just so I can stick it in my own reader for analysis.  Lucky me, it'll probably be encrypted; if it isn't then we'll have REAL problems!
> 
> Peace,
> Robert "just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not after me" Reese~
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