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> Voter registration information, including voter address, is public information. Nobody leaked it.

People keep parroting this but it shouldn't be public information. Personal safety is more important than the law, as is established in the universal unalienable rights. Where I sleep is emphatically NOT public information. Period.

Until the law is changed to ensure my physical safety I see no reason to re-register.



Shouldn't and is required to by law are two different things. So yeah, maybe it shouldn't be public information, but the fact that it is, and is legally required to be, means that your information wasn't "leaked".


No, it was leaked, against my consent.

The government doing something against my personal safety and consent in the name of the law doesn't make it not a leak.




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