Voter SS numbers exposed (new problem 10/26/06)

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Potentially hundreds or thousands of Social Security numbers of Tuscarawas County voters are available to subscribers served by the Internet database service LexisNexis.
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A former Tuscarawas County resident and LexisNexis subscriber alerted The Times-Reporter after she discovered voters’ Social Security numbers while searching the site.
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At least some Social Security numbers of voters in Warren County also are available.
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The LexisNexis database didn’t come from Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell’s office, spokesman James Lee said Wednesday. He said local boards of elections may be the source of such information.
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Tuscarawas County Board of Elections Director Charles Miller said, however, the voter database goes only to the Ohio Secretary of State’s office and is not sold or given to third parties. He said candidates requesting a list of registered voters don’t get Social Security numbers or voter identification numbers.
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Blackwell, Ohio’s Republican candidate for governor, came under fire earlier this year after his office published 1.2 million Social Security numbers connected with business filings on the agency’s Web site. A class action lawsuit was filed and most of the numbers ultimately were removed. Nevertheless, The Times-Reporter found at least one Social Security number on the secretary’s Web site Wednesday.


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