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Elon Musk is offering people cash to identify new Trump voters. What could go wrong?
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this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
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Ok, but it is really fucked up how transparent voting seems to be for you guys in the US:
How do you know who didn’t vote?
How do you know who’s “blue leaning”?
I used to love your card games before you got all political.
That third one is 24K gold
FYI if you want to see what data they have try to sign up to get paid. Even if you have never voted they may have data on you.
The first and second one just seem wrong somehow. Voting is definitely supposed to be anonymous. Why would (aside from stupidity) would that sheriff recently make the statement about noting who has democrat signs in their yards if they could just find out everyone who voted democrat?
It was mostly for intimidation. And I don't think that Sheriff in particular has easy access to these records. Sounds like you need to form a PAC, find the data brokers, and then buy it off them.
Much cheaper to just intimidate the local population with thug tactics.
Whether we voted is not anonymous, but how we voted is anonymous. It's just that our political leanings are pretty transparent in our personal data.