Increasingly, watch-lists are used to restrict access to training and education, and to stop people buying property, guns, chemicals and other things that can be made into weapons.

ECONOMIST: Computing: What's in a name? | The

When the Franken campaign filed its initial lawsuit demanding access to the voter lists, it used as an example an 84-year-old woman in Beltrami County whose vote was supposedly rejected because she'd had a stroke, and therefore her signature on her absentee ballot did not match the one on file.

WSJ: Al Franken's Minnesota

But she added that access to specialist services was a problem with some parts of the country having year-long waiting lists.

BBC: Depressed teens 'face adult risk'