Improving Administration Of Statewide Database Systems And Guarding Against Wrongful Or Incorrect Purging

Each state has an official statewide computerized voter registration database list of registered voters: if you are not on the list, you cannot vote.

Policies in several states have been developed that refuse to add registrants to the voter rolls unless their voter registration information has been “matched” exactly to other government databases. These matches must be exact. Other states have compiled lists of voters that they believe to be ineligible to vote and then purge these names from the voter list without adequately ensuring the name on the ineligible list is indeed the same as the person being deleted from the voter file.

Proper management of these databases is essential to ensuring that all eligible voters are allowed to cast their ballots. Therefore the League is working to ensure that states have policies and procedures in place that mandate proper management of the database.