I agree. Why would we feel better. Basically both campaigns have a “we are watching you” get out the vote machine.
I don’t feel good about anyone knowing that precisely who voted and when. And I certainly don’t feel good about Obama’s campaign going after the vote just as well as they did in 2004.
Even in the primitive precincts, the party knows who voted if there are precinct watchers. I might be one tomorrow, for a local race. I was told I’d be checking a printed list that is updated throughout the day and posted outside the polling place. Based on who isn’t checked off as voting, we start making phone calls or personal door to door visits. This is just a bigger system than that. If anything, because Orca is not your neighbor looking down the list at your name and forming a personal opinion of you, it may be less invasive than somebody like me doing it the primitive way.
One reason we should feel better is that only one campaign had such a system last time — and it wasn’t McCain’s.
At the very least we have leveled the playing field here.