This is a horrible way to categorize people. They shouldn't have been deterred from voting anyway. It's scary to think that authorities can legally obtain so much information about ordinary people like myself from what kind of car I have to if I'm planning to have a baby.
Revealed: Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016
I can't help thinking, though that the release of this news is rather well timed, so closed to the election in November...
Timing is suspect and probably as false as Trump's Russian collusion!
I think that your second thought is the more accurate.