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It varies from state to state. In some states, like California, vital records are considered public records. These are called “open record states.” You can get Marilyn Monroe’s death certificate (not certified copy) if you want. In others like Hawaii, records are only available to people with a “tangible interest” in the record, which includes close relatives and court proceedings. This is a “closed record state.”Vital records personnel have to access records to do their jobs. One of the things I did as a vendor of vital records software was data conversions, where I had access to all the records for a state for the duration of the data conversion.Generally a court can order access to a vital record.

There is zero proof that this happened, and I’m about to demonstrate why it is impossible.I used to work for an elections company. We invented an On-Demand Ballot Printing system that we sold in Florida ahead of the 2008 elections, and in California, Colorado, Arizona, and other states in subsequent elections. If you remember the “hanging chad” problem in Florida; that was “fixed” by introducing electronic voting machines. When the public lost faith in those machines, we entered Florida with a solution that “fixed” those machines with the reintroduction of paper ballots, printed for the specific voter, within minutes of scanning their ID (Florida has Voter ID Cards).That is a side story to introduce that I worked with elections staff from multiple counties in multiple states across America.The first thing you should know is this: the people who run elections take their jobs very seriously. They live by the motto, “don’t get in the papers”. They want clean elections with no mistakes that can be questioned by the press. In almost all cases, the person responsible for running the election is, themselves, an elected official whose name just might be on today’s ballot. You don’t want people pissed off about the polling place when they get to your position on the ballot and make their decision to elect your opponent because you didn’t have enough poll workers.Part of being serious is being careful. In NO instance in my experience, were elections officials careless about security. The voter registration database is sacrosanct and your ballot—even more so.As a vendor, our PC’s and printers were not allowed on the county networks. We had to develop local-only networks, with no connection to the internet. This was particularly true when I worked with California. In each county I worked, I had to bring my own network to connect control PCs to our ballot printers. The files required to create the on-demand ballot or ballots (we had a second process that would print the entire request file for Vote by Mail ballots in managed print runs) had to be transferred via sneakernet and were intentionally built with only the data required to print and mail a ballot. Elections officials, and by necessity, all staff who provide services to elections officials, have to be carefully monitored and supervised. I was once in an escort-only area of Pinellas County, FL and stepped outside to take a cell call from my office. I walked into a stairwell and found that I had no means to get back out. I had to look up the direct number for the County Elections Supervisor and ask her to send my escort to come find me.Now…why are California elections immune to voting multiple times?All potential voters must be registered in their county of residence.You can only vote if your name appears on that list. Your name can only appear once.If you request a mail-in ballot, your name will not be on the voter registration list at your local precinct. You can’t vote from home and then vote at a polling place. If your name is not on the list, you either can not vote, or you must vote a “provisional ballot” that will be held until it can be verified as the only ballot submitted for your name/address.If you request a second mail-in ballot, the first ballot is deactivated in the system. If it shows up in the mailed-in returns, it will be outsorted as VOID. Your second ballot is the only official ballot you can submit. If you lose your ballot and request another, don’t try to vote the first if you find it. It will not be counted. It is void and will be outsorted in favor of your second requested ballot.If you try to vote twice at your precinct, your signature from when you voted the first time will tell the old guy at the table that you have already been here, and you won’t get another ballot to vote.If you go from precinct to precinct to vote multiple times, your name won’t be on the voter records and you can only vote a provisional ballot. Provisionals are put in an envelope with your signature and are opened after all other ballots have been counted. If multiple provisionals are received for the same person, only one ballot can be counted. The rest are put aside in the event they are challenged. End result, despite going to 16 precincts, you only get to vote one time.If you think this is all difficult work for elections officials, it isn’t really. Pitney-Bowes and other vendors make high-speed sorting equipment that can sort tens of thousands of ballots an hour and are programmed to outsort any duplicate ballots received, placing them in a bin that must be inspected by elections officials before they can be included/excluded from the election. The machine can even scan your signature on the envelope and compare it to your voter record as the envelope flies past a camera at over 60 MPH, making a decision to out-sort questionable signatures in milliseconds.Note, that this sorting is not related to tabulation. It is ONLY for sorting and verifying that the VOTER only votes one ballot. Once verified, ballots are separated from their affidavit envelopes and then get tabulated by precinct/voting district/parrish, etc.So, in-person voting is protected by the arcane but reliable system of making a voter sign for their ballot and show ID.Mail-in ballots are protected by sorting equipment and elections officials.Provisional ballots are the most-scrutinized ballots in the system for the simple reason that they are the only ballots that might enter the system illegally.So, where can you vote, even twice, that won’t be questioned and caught?Even in systems where the electronic voting machines are used, you still must make it past the election official by showing your ID.Therefore, Trump’s assertion that millions of people are voting multiple times is complete and utter bullshit. In most-everything he says, I assume this to be true. In this case, I can guarantee it.He’s lying. Any very stable genius should be able to see that. Especially those of us smarter than he is. Now, you know more about our election system than our president.And…not that I encourage voter fraud, but if it is so damned easy to vote multiple times, why are Democrats the only ones who will sink low enough to do it? The evidence of actual fraud in Republican districts (purging of voter rolls; closing of polling places in minority precincts; Voter ID law requirements where the DMV is only open 2 days a month; gerrymandering districts; etc.) is well-documented. If they are so willing to cheat, why won’t they try to vote twice?The answer, obviously, is because they can’t.If you don’t believe me, please try to vote twice and see what happens to you.Go forth and vote…once.

It varies by state. Several states are “open records states” where anyone can request information from a birth registration; California is an example. Other states restrict queries to the individual or members of their family.But each state is going to write their own employee policies and Michael Benton's answer to What are the privacy requirements for county or state employees who have access to vital records? gives a fairly typical example.Electronic vital event registration systems can easily track which user accesses which record and so improper access is deterred. Paper records are different…I was a vendor of electronic vital records systems, and I was visiting the records room of a county health department. They had bound volumes of records on shelves, and there were little paper tabs sticking out on some of them, so I asked what the tabs were. An employee pulled one book out and opened it to the tabbed page and showed it to me. It was a death certificate on which the doctor had written the cause of death: “Don’t know. Was dead when I got here.” Based on what I know about the law in that state, my anecdote was against policy. (The record was old, so maybe there was an exception.)I have also done data conversions for states as a private vendor, and I’ve had a birth certificate database for an entire state on my hard drive. Our company signed a non-disclosure agreement which we certainly honored, but I could have looked at anything. In my 36 years with medical systems and vital records, I got really good at not remembering details.I did do a sanity check on a data conversion once and entered an SQL query something like:select count(*) from births where name_first = 'Sue' and sex = 'M' I think the number was around six.