A federal judge says New Mexico election regulators and prosecutors discriminated against a Republican-backed group in refusing access to voter registration rolls.
The Friday ruling bars the state from refusing to turn over voter data to Voter Reference Foundation, bolstering the group’s efforts to expand a free database of registered voters so that groups and individuals can take it upon themselves to try to find potential irregularities or fraud.
State prosecutors plan to appeal the ruling, said Lauren Rodriguez, a spokesperson for the New Mexico Department of Justice.
The VoteRef.com website recently restored New Mexico listings to its searchable database of registered voters — including street addresses, party affiliations and whether voters participated in recent elections.
One of the best reasons to not vote anyone ever gave me is that if you stop before you move your home address isn’t a matter of public record anymore.
If you own any land that’s all public records (in my area at least). Kinda annoying that you can just go to a towns website and see all of the tax bills with addresses and a map of exactly where that land is.
Damn near everything you do involving the government becomes public records of some sort.
A pretty poor excuse not to vote though. Kinda sov-city like saying don’t get a drivers license at 16 so that you never need to get a drivers.
Land can be held by a trust
Fair. Do you own land held in a trust? Curious of tax “benefits”
I don’t, but there’s lots of reasons people do it, there might be additional costs associated with it but everything I’ve heard of it that the person in charge of the trust just pays the property tax like if they were a normal person instead of the agent of a vehicle.
One benefit to a trust it that transfers take place entirely within the framework of the trust, so you can transfer use rights and “ownership” within the trust without incurring the transfer fees and taxes associated with splitting up a plot in the “meatspace” of titles and deeds.
This should not be public record. I hate that when I register in CA my info gets sent to every spamming piece of shit political group.
Why are we providing voter rolls to anyone who isn’t in the government?
How else are they going to compile kill lists for insurrection day/day of the long knives?
I’m not kidding. I hope the good people of the US make use of the 2nd amendment to defend themselves and their homes. They won’t be able to trust the cops; most of them will side with the insurrectionists.
Not to mention this, to specifically target federal employees who won’t toe the line.
Public databases are public…. Yeah kinda sucks.
But as much as I hate it; oh and I do! It is public info.
Now, their misuse of that data needs a lawsuit or three; and I’m sadly also sure that would accomplish nothing….
This information should not be public
While I agree, the flip side is records could be changed on a whim and it would be that much harder to prove they were changed.
If you’re worried about party affiliation being used against you then register as independent. That’s the only thing kept in that record that wasn’t always available in the phone books of past times.
Well, we did get rid of the phone books
In the UK when you sign up to vote you have the option to be on the “open register” which is a list of voters that companies then buy to find people to spam with letters etc. Safe to say I’ve opted out
