Earl, as you know, I'm not overly dependent upon details, but I believe there must be ways to accurately practice voter registry maintenance. For those who pass away, the state office that provides certified death certificates to a family could simultaneously supply a death certificate to the appropriate county election office.
Regarding those who relocate, is there a department in Topeka that houses records of a person moving into or out of a county? If there is, why not have that department forward the newly updated records to the appropriate county(ies)? If there isn't, how about using utility records as a way for maintaining accurate voter registration records?
There may be a few who's names could slip through the cracks, but wouldn't the suggestions offered above favorably impact voter registration maintenance?
When costs are artificially imposed (AI) for records, I tend to believe they are done so to prevent access by the masses, especially those with inquiring minds. If neither major political party acts to prevent this from happening or to eliminate such policies, I tend to believe both parties have something they don't want residents to know. Wouldn't it be nice if such suspicions could be laid to rest when one party or the other acts to remove the artificial barrier of cost for access to records?
Kansas only issues death certificates to people dying in the state, and that information is shared with county officials. However, death information for those dying outside the state often is not known by county officials.
Social Security (erratically in recent years) provides a “Death Master File” of people who have died, which can be cross referenced with the voter rolls – but that’s not a perfect process. [The Death Master File is only 99.5% accurate according to a KU Med researcher several years ago.]
The cause for the largest number of inactive voters is people leaving the state and not providing that information to the election office, either directly, or through their new home state registration agency or DMV. There have been efforts in other states to capture DMV re-registrations to fix old voter registrations.
Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh years ago created an interstate “cross check” program to find people registered in several states. Lawsuits about technical issues killed that project. Crosscheck needs to be resurrected, but progressive groups will continue lawsuits to hinder such efforts.
A number of voter integrity groups go to great lengths to find voters who have moved away through post office records, or property records that show a voter no longer lives at an address, or … Such efforts are largely a waste of time. Election officials use only direct communication with voters to make changes to registrations to avoid disenfranchisement issues.
There is no approved feedback loop for a third party to correct any wrong information about a voter, except to request a voter fill out a new registration form with corrected information. I’ll be writing about those with birthdates in 1800 soon.
Another recent Kansas law allows state officials to mark someone “inactive” for missing two federal elections, with removal after missing two more -- often a 4 or 6 year process. (Before that law, undeliverable mail was the most common way to identify an inactive voter.) A change in federal law to simplify the removal process could greatly reduce the number of inactive voters.
Earl, as you know, I'm not overly dependent upon details, but I believe there must be ways to accurately practice voter registry maintenance. For those who pass away, the state office that provides certified death certificates to a family could simultaneously supply a death certificate to the appropriate county election office.
Regarding those who relocate, is there a department in Topeka that houses records of a person moving into or out of a county? If there is, why not have that department forward the newly updated records to the appropriate county(ies)? If there isn't, how about using utility records as a way for maintaining accurate voter registration records?
There may be a few who's names could slip through the cracks, but wouldn't the suggestions offered above favorably impact voter registration maintenance?
When costs are artificially imposed (AI) for records, I tend to believe they are done so to prevent access by the masses, especially those with inquiring minds. If neither major political party acts to prevent this from happening or to eliminate such policies, I tend to believe both parties have something they don't want residents to know. Wouldn't it be nice if such suspicions could be laid to rest when one party or the other acts to remove the artificial barrier of cost for access to records?
Kansas only issues death certificates to people dying in the state, and that information is shared with county officials. However, death information for those dying outside the state often is not known by county officials.
Social Security (erratically in recent years) provides a “Death Master File” of people who have died, which can be cross referenced with the voter rolls – but that’s not a perfect process. [The Death Master File is only 99.5% accurate according to a KU Med researcher several years ago.]
The cause for the largest number of inactive voters is people leaving the state and not providing that information to the election office, either directly, or through their new home state registration agency or DMV. There have been efforts in other states to capture DMV re-registrations to fix old voter registrations.
Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh years ago created an interstate “cross check” program to find people registered in several states. Lawsuits about technical issues killed that project. Crosscheck needs to be resurrected, but progressive groups will continue lawsuits to hinder such efforts.
A number of voter integrity groups go to great lengths to find voters who have moved away through post office records, or property records that show a voter no longer lives at an address, or … Such efforts are largely a waste of time. Election officials use only direct communication with voters to make changes to registrations to avoid disenfranchisement issues.
There is no approved feedback loop for a third party to correct any wrong information about a voter, except to request a voter fill out a new registration form with corrected information. I’ll be writing about those with birthdates in 1800 soon.
Another recent Kansas law allows state officials to mark someone “inactive” for missing two federal elections, with removal after missing two more -- often a 4 or 6 year process. (Before that law, undeliverable mail was the most common way to identify an inactive voter.) A change in federal law to simplify the removal process could greatly reduce the number of inactive voters.