[Beldin]

> So if you voted, your address and name is public record

As someone not from the USA: what the actual F?!

edit labster's sibling comment points out that there are actually laws on how public voter data is. So it is not nearly as dire as the quoted sentence made it seem.

[ghaff]

There are laws--which vary by state--on how and by whom and for what purpose voter registration data can be requested. But, as a general statement, it's not wrong to say that the name and address of registered voters are often a matter of public record though not their vote of course. It's certainly not correct to say that, in general, no one besides the government can access them.

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/access-to-and-u...

[hef19898]

It seems voting in the US is a lot less secret and anonymous then elsewhere. All people do in Germany is scratching your name off of the voter list at your polling station to avoid someone else voting again in your name.

The list of names so is not public or anything special, it is just a list names and adresses pulled from the respective resident list maintained by your cities / towns / communities authorities anyway.

[strken]

I think it's fairly common to make the electoral roll available in some form or other. In Australia, for example, you can walk into the National Library of Australia and read federal electoral rolls dating back to 1903.

The USA goes unusually far with this, but it's a matter of degree and it doesn't surprise me.