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Witnesses urge JCAR to reject rule they say would remove e-poll book retention and limit local access
Summary
Public testimony at a Joint Committee on Administrative Rules meeting urged rejection of a proposed rule (discussed as 25-49/2025-14) that witnesses said would allow deletion or reclassification of electronic poll-book data, potentially conflicting with federal retention requirements and reducing local clerk and public access to records.
Multiple witnesses told the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules that a proposed election-related rule would eliminate an audit trail and violate federal retention requirements, urging the committee to reject the rule.
Shelly Lake testified that deleting certain election data is a federal felony and warned clerks not to follow any rule that would require deletion of e-poll book records. “Deleting election data is a felony, federally,” Lake said and urged the committee to “protect your clerks, and don't ask them to delete EPB data.”
Steve Fromm, who identified himself as a Salem Township resident, said the proposed change centralizes election data under the…
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