They say that the right to vote is priceless. As a registered Chicago voter, I’ll could now have to decide if it’s worth credit monitoring at $20/year or so.

For 1.3 million of my fellow Chicagoans, it’s being at risk of identity theft fraud-by-impersonation.

As if there weren’t enough concerns about the integrity of the vote, a non-partisan civic organization today claimed it had hacked into the voter database for the 1.35 million voters in the city of Chicago.

Bob Wilson, an official with the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project — which bills itself as a not-for-profit civic organization dedicated to the correction of election system deficiencies — tells ABC News that last week his organization hacked the database, which contains detailed information about hundreds of thousands of Chicago voters, including their Social Security numbers, and dates of birth.

I wonder how many dead people, dogs and cats will have their identities stolen because of this?

Updated: Note that this is a vulnerability announcement, not an actual theft

If you vote at all, arguably you vote for your own oppression. You legitimise the process that oppresses you. The problem with voting for full-time carrer officials is that you create a whole other class of people who have interests no longer coincident with the people who elected them. I would agree within the confines of the extant culture that there isn’t much in the way of alternatives though.

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Sorry fogot to say, I think it’s because there’s no real alternative within the culture, it’s the culture itself that will go.
I’m not seeing one of those buttons that says be alerted when a reply is made :-(

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