As someone who spends many an hour schlepping the streets of my area helping to create the Electoral Roll I think Big Brother Watch would be better served trying to actually get people to sign and return their forms and in trying to encourage people to use their vote.
 
I deliver approx 900 forms and then have to do call backs to those not returned within 4 - 6 weeks.  I usually have at least 400 call backs to do and many say they don't want to sign as they wont be voting.
 
And as for the edited register all the public have to do is tick a box!
 
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From: The Information and Records Management Society mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Kurilecz
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Subject: Re: Sale of electoral data blights democracy, pressure group claims | Information Age

voter registration rolls are public records in the US and are sold on a regular basis except each state decides whether or not they can be use for commercial purposes. here are two examples
Maryland
http://www.elections.state.md.us/voter_registration/purchase_lists.html

South Carolina
http://www.state.sc.us/scsec/salelist.htm

this is a tempest in a teapot. commercial entities can and have gathered your personal data for commercial purposes.


On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Lawrence Serewicz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Are people discouraged from having a phone because they may get marketing calls?

Are people discouraged from having a front door because they may receive marketing letters?

Are people discouraged from living because they may meet a marketer?

 


 

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