Ah California.

This is a very good example of the difference between a left policy and a liberal policy (actually neoliberal to be precise).

The left policy would have been to have some agency within the california government which ultimately does the verification... because why would you outsource that task to a 3rd party?

The neoliberal policy is "Well, we don't want to spend the time to set this up, so let's just pay 10 companies with some taxpayer money to do the job we really should do ourselves".

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terminalshort 2 days ago | parent [-]

So now the government has all my data and looks at it constantly to avoid it being available to private companies? Sounds like the worst situation possible.

	▲	cogman10 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		All your data? No, just records of whether or not your a citizen/resident. That seems like pretty important data for any government to have. It's also information the state's records department likely already has. For example, if you have a drivers license with the state or you were born in the state they'll have that documentation. Unless you are just an anarchist, then I can't see how it's unreasonable for a government to know who it represents. That's why governments do censuses. Heck, that's needed just for the basic function of making sure you aren't voting in multiple districts.