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SSB 1088

A bill for an act relating to voter registration, including voter registration file maintenance and verification of voter eligibility.(See SF 550.)

Agenda

Subcommittee members: Rozenboom-CH, Reichman, Winckler

Date: Thursday, February 20, 2025

Time: 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Location: Room 315

Comments Submitted:

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02-20-2025

Sharon Santema

This bill makes some good proposals for helping to keep illegitimate, non citizens off of our voter rolls. But in section 2g, the state is given permission to hire a 3rd party for voter roll maintenance. We should not be giving our voter rolls to any private 3rd party. In 2018 Iowa hired and used the private entity, ERIC for 5 years. After these 5 years our voter rolls were very corrupted. I've worked with others and we identified over 1000 deceased who were on the voter rolls for more than 4 months and up to 20 years. We also identified many on the voter rolls who were registered to vote in 2 states. Because of our experience with ERIC, we need to keep the voter roll maintenance at the county level. There are some great private entities doing the work of voter roll maintenance, but how will the state decipher an effective entity from an entity like ERIC, which leaves our voter rolls in poor condition?