Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie also recommitted to closing the loophole in his opening remarks for the 2016 session, and the Assembly passed it once again as part of
a broad ethics package, this time nearly unanimously.
Michael Zimmer, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he specialises in privacy and internet
ethics, described this as a «particularly problematic» kind of voter targeting that raised
broader concerns in the US about «
packaging voters like they're consumers».