Voter Privacy

Growing unease about the privacy of personal information, along with the increased practice of voter profiling by political campaigns, has raised concerns about voter privacy. Visit the background page for more information about CVF's position and involvement in the voter privacy debate.

CVF Resources

CVF 2004 study: Voter Privacy in the Digital Age -- read the news release and the study.
Directory of State Voter Registration Forms (2002)
Protecting Voter Data Privacy While Expanding Participation (Powerpoint presentation from 2012 Overseas Vote Foundation Summit)

Additional Resources

It's a Presidential election year - do you know where your voter records are? - analysis of state voter registration data practices and proposed laws published in the February 2016 issue of The Canvass, a newsletter by the National Conference of State Legislatures
Voter data privacy news stories and analysis from ProPublica, Journalism in the Public Interest, 2012-2103
Improving State Voter Registration Databases, final report issued by the National Research Council's Committee on State Voter Registration Databases, 2009
Statewide Databases of Registered Voters: Study Of Accuracy, Privacy, Usability, Security, and Reliability Issues, commissioned by the U.S. Public Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery, February 2006
California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's Voter Privacy Task Force, Task Force's final report, and news release
Electronic Privacy Information Center's (EPIC) voting page

New to the Issue?

Read the in-depth story, "Mining the Vein of Voter Rolls", by Wired News reporter Kim Zetter (published December 2003) and Big Brother Inc., by James Verini (published December 2007) for good background information on the issue of voter privacy.

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