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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1101843" data-attributes="member: 114717">In the U.S., voter names, addresses, DOB, party affiliation, and other voter data are public information and either available freely or by a formal request. The infos available varies by state but in most cases someone can easily obtain a person&#039;s address, phone, DOB, etc without much effort. One does not even need voter registration databases. It is so trivial to get personally identifying information online. Some states place their voter registration infos behind a paywall thinking that they are protecting the citizens, but in reality all that data is available elsewhere and easily accessible.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/access-to-and-use-of-voter-registration-lists[/URL][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://voteref.com/[/URL]Some occupations are prohibited from being listed - judges, district attorneys, certain state and federal officials, investigators, law enforcement, certain agency senior agency personnel, certain DoD roles, etc. Either that or just do not register to vote. A registered voter may not opt-out of having their infos made public information - which again does not matter as most everyone&#039;s data is already public infos.The &quot;moral&quot; of the story is that it does not matter if voter infos was hacked. The data is and has been out there all the time and easily accessible for the past 50 years. In today&#039;s world, living in fear of &quot;My data has been hacked and thrown onto the Dark Web&quot; is wasted mental and emotional energy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1101843, member: 114717"] In the U.S., voter names, addresses, DOB, party affiliation, and other voter data are public information and either available freely or by a formal request. The infos available varies by state but in most cases someone can easily obtain a person's address, phone, DOB, etc without much effort. One does not even need voter registration databases. It is so trivial to get personally identifying information online. Some states place their voter registration infos behind a paywall thinking that they are protecting the citizens, but in reality all that data is available elsewhere and easily accessible. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/access-to-and-use-of-voter-registration-lists[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://voteref.com/[/URL] Some occupations are prohibited from being listed - judges, district attorneys, certain state and federal officials, investigators, law enforcement, certain agency senior agency personnel, certain DoD roles, etc. Either that or just do not register to vote. A registered voter may not opt-out of having their infos made public information - which again does not matter as most everyone's data is already public infos. The "moral" of the story is that it does not matter if voter infos was hacked. The data is and has been out there all the time and easily accessible for the past 50 years. In today's world, living in fear of "My data has been hacked and thrown onto the Dark Web" is wasted mental and emotional energy. [/QUOTE]

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