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 Study: Voter Privacy in the Digital Age -- read the news release and the study.

• Directory of State Voter Registration Forms

Additional Resources

• 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

• California Office of Privacy Protection

• 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) for good background information on the issue of voter privacy.

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This page was first published on February 12, 2004 | Last updated on October 29, 2009
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