It would result in us not approving the project/vendor at all.

edit: We(citizens) don't like being spied on, and it just rubs salt in the wound that we have to pay for it.

Given that this is literally only useful for tracking people, not approving the project would be ideal.

Tracking people is like 90% of what every organization does. It's why we have names, phone numbers, addresses, id numbers, license plates, etc. "Tracking people = bad" is an untenable assumption.

Well go ahead and dox yourself right here for us.

Perhaps I'm not being clear. "Tracking people involuntarily" might be bad. "Tracking people unnecessarily" might be bad. But they will be bad because they are involuntary and unnecessary, not because they are tracking people.

My username is associated with my real life identity and would be trivial for people to look me up.

I am already "doxxed" and it doesn't bother me.

If you think 0% of the citizenry supports scanning licence plates that cross the border, I have bad news for you.

The overwhelming majority of people are probably ok with recording plates at the border. If it's confined to the border it's not really any different than the customs agent jotting down your license plate. It's also not really "tracking", it's just a record created at that single point. It's the whole network that makes it "tracking"

It's the record keeping everywhere else and tracking that that enables that's not ok.

Jotting down on paper is not the same as aggregated and uploaded to an open ftp server.

I honestly support license plate readers on most roads, if they were used for average speed measurements and in conjunction with automated ticketing of people speeding.