[conspire] Names and databases.

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Nick Moffitt (nick at zork.net):

> 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.

What's cheering about is that a little patience, goodwill, and competent
use of intelligent searching reportedly solved pretty much all the
problems encountered.  Of course, the problem is that there aren't
enough Paige C. Morgans to go around.  Or even Morgan Paiges.  ;->