I recently got a thank-you letter from a politician about my last election vote. It was shockingly presumptuous for several reasons, the most important being that no one can legally access an individual voting choice.

Overall voting numbers and tallies are public. And recent concerns about voter enrollment records might endanger personal information regarding where individuals live, what party they registered with, and if they cast a vote.

But no record of whether an individual’s cast vote was actually for a particular candidate is maintained. Even an elected official cannot confirm that their spouse, friend or donor voted for them.

Sending a “thank you” to a voter is pure intimidation. Even if all state voting records were perused, they don’t include a way to definitively match a speci

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