Data sets
containing voter names and demographic information like addresses, party affiliation and even gender can be purchased or downloaded — often from government sites themselves — for only a few dollars.
Not exact matches
This database
contains each
voter's
name, as well as basic personal information (such as mailing address, sex, and date of birth).
Your ballot can't
contain your
name because your vote is supposed to be secret, so to ensure that each
voter votes only once and only registered
voters can vote, each polling place has a list of the people eligible to vote there and can cross people off as they arrive.
Only recently, on 28th February 2018, we gave each of the 68 political parties a copy of the register
containing names of the 3.9 million new
voters registered in 2017.
Effectively, the Plaintiffs sought from the Supreme Court a declaration that the current
voters» register (the Register) is unconstitutional, null and void, and of no effect because it
contains the
names of persons not qualified to vote and persons who are deceased.
(3) A declaration that the current register of
voters which
contains the
names of persons who are deceased is not reasonably accurate or credible.
But the law also
contains detailed provisions that encourage the states to maintain «accurate and current» registration rolls and remove the
names of ineligible
voters — such as those who have died, those who've moved or those convicted of a crime.