Social Security Administration stopped weekly updates of Help America Vote Verification data before the election
Weekly updates stopped on Oct. 19. HAVV analysis for the 2024 election blocked by unreleased data.
Update: In early Feb. 2025 Social Security finally re-started updating online HAVV data after pausing in Oct. 2024.
Long ago the “motor voter” bill enabled voter registrations at state motor vehicle agencies when applying for, or renewing, a driver’s license.
In many states the Social Security Administration was tasked to verify the identity of many of the new “motor voter” registration applications.
The SSA publishes weekly statistics by state showing the number of “Help America Vote Verification” (HAVV) transactions, along with some information about problems in the verification process.
The Watchdog Lab published an article in June about questions with the HAVV data in many states that showed problems in verifying voters.
Updates about these HAVV problems in some states were published every few weeks (mostly on X) starting in July until the Social Security Administration stopped the release in October.
Issues in HAVV records in 2024
Several states showed HAVV data issues in 2024.
Here are three examples, with the first two from “swing” states:
Arizona
In the update for the week ending Oct. 12, 2024, the State of Arizona set an all-time record in the total number of HAVV transactions with 161,182 with about 8.6% of those not matching Social Security records.
Why in the last reported week ending Oct. 19, did the non-match rate climb to almost 32%? Where in Arizona did that happen?
Michigan
Total HAVV transactions in Michigan set all-time record highs in five of the last six weeks before the data updates stopped.
Why is the nonmatching rate so high in Michigan every week? Over a third of Michigan’s HAVV transactions do not match Social Security records all the time.
Kansas
In Kansas for the week ending March 23, 2024 there were 447 HAVV matches to deceased individuals of the 835 matches that week.
Why would over half the matches be to deceased that week? Where in Kansas did that happen?
In 2024 there were a total of six weeks with >30% deceased match rate in Kansas.
Kansas Open Records cannot shed any light on any questions related to HAVV data. That’s the response from the Kansas Department of Revenue.
The Kansas legislature and/or Congress should investigate the lack of transparency in the problems evident in the HAVV data with both state and federal agencies unwilling to provide any transparency about the problems.
Background
The “motor voter law” (the National Voter Registration Act of 1993) enabled state motor vehicle agencies to register voters.
Anyone seeking a driver’s license (or renewal) or a car registration can now register to vote, or update voter registration information, at a Motor Vehicle Administration office (called Department of Motor Vehicles in some states).
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 enabled the Social Security Administration to provide name verifications using full or partial Social Security Numbers on a state’s voter registration form when a voter did not have a state-issued ID.
Some states ask a new voter for a full Social Security Number, but 43 states only ask for the last four digits of the SSN.
New voter applications in particular are verified through a process developed by the Social Security Administration using a nonprofit as an intermediary. This verification process is called “Help America Vote Verification” or HAVV.
Social Security maintains a web page with weekly summaries by state of HAVV transactions.
Earl,
Thank you for your insightful response. I tip my hat to you. My personality doesn't lend itself to putting up with the shenanigans you described.
With the lack of visible outrage by those in either party, I'm led to believe the obfuscation you and other researchers experience is "by design." I tend to believe "election integrity" is a deliberate distraction. Elections or (s)elections were rigged before election machines became the norm, and if we reversed to paper ballots, I'd expect election or (s)election shenanigans to continue, just in a different form from the current shenanigans.
Don't you wonder with the rigged 2020 election or (s)election (I witnessed it live) how is it that the 2024 election or (s)election has been accepted by both major parties as being legitimate ..., or was it?
I hope you are able to cut through the red tape to identify how the electoral or (s)electoral system is gamed by both major political parties.
Does this fall under the preview of Kobach? If not, to what individual does it fall? Has what you uncovered happened in previous elections, especially Presidential elections?
I know this goes against generally accepted thinking, but are both parties involved in election shenanigans?