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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 01:27:12 JST feld
   > There is no database of U.S. citizens to check against.
   
   No database? Can't cross reference social security numbers, passports? For SS they should know if you're a citizen based on what documents you submitted to get one.
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     I am Water (slicerdicer@friedcheese.us)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 02:16:25 JST I am Water

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     @feld It was MySQL and they let it fill with logs.
     
     That’s what I suspect to be the case. It only makes sense. Fill the disk, blow the database.
     
     Now you have no database.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 06:40:20 JST feld

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     @RecoveredExpert I never said it was the canonical data source, only that you could likely find many of these people in it and be able to determine their status. For SS it would be which forms they filed
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     Recovered Expert (recoveredexpert@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 06:40:21 JST Recovered Expert

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     @feld No: https://mastodon.social/@RecoveredExpert/113335040564253723

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 02:36:36 JST feld

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     @RecoveredExpert a partial dataset is better than nothing for improving our ability to accurately maintain the voter rolls.
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     Recovered Expert (recoveredexpert@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 02:36:37 JST Recovered Expert

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     @feld another partial dataset covering only a subset of people allowed to vote is not solving the problem that you quoted in your initial post. There is no single dataset to allow for authoritatively determining voting eligibility in the US and that is by design. Not saying that I agree (or disagree) with the reasons for that.