[conspire] Names and databases.

Nick Moffitt nick at zork.net
Mon Nov 9 01:56:15 PST 2020


Here's an excellent story of what it was like to be a poll worker this year:

	https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325588115503902723.html

Essentially it's a warning tale about the way we abuse names for databases.  Some poll workers wouldn't be able to find voter registrations because they were unable or unwilling to make the effort to understand the ways that non-Anglo names can be mangled by our systems' Anglo assumptions.

It reminds me of this now-decade-old gem:

	https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/



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