Texas officials have turned over the state’s voter roll to the U.S. Justice Department, according to a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, complying with the Trump administration’s demands for access to data on millions of voters across the country.
The Justice Department last fall began asking all 50 states for their voter rolls — massive lists containing significant identifying information on every registered voter in each state — and other election-related data. The Justice Department has said the effort is central to its mission of enforcing election law requiring states to regularly maintain voter lists by searching for and removing ineligible voters.
Alicia Pierce, a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, told Votebeat and The Texas Tribune that the state had sent its voter roll, which includes information on the approximately 18.4 million voters registered in Texas, to the Justice Department on Dec. 23.
Property records in most states and counties have a web portal with a search bar. You input the address and you can get the name of who lives there. The opposite is true in some places as well, you input the name and get the address. It’s not good, don’t get me wrong, but it is “very public” in most places.
Luckily, my state doesn’t have you register your political affiliation. That’s what is most worrying about Texas doing this, since they do have you pick a primary. Otherwise, it is basically just public records.
Nope what you get is who owns the property. It’s certainly possible the homeowner lives there (obviously.) but if a property is say a Rental, then the information is going to be the Land Lord.
Actually unless the State has a Jungle Primary or just a general election you are going to have a party affiliation. Literally speaking from a State that is Open Primary so the rolls register based on which primary I vote in.