If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked

Research by Noah M. Kenney demonstrates that publicly available voter registration records can be linked with other datasets (for example, FEC contribution data) to uniquely identify large proportions of voters and expose sensitive groups such as deployed military families; the paper compares disclosure regimes in Travis County, TX and Robeson County, NC, reports high unique-match rates (e.g., ~52% match from FEC to voter records using simple keys, much higher with commercial tools), documents how turnout patterns and phone numbers can act as fingerprints, and recommends access controls, identity verification, and opt-outs to mitigate privacy harms.