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Kansas committee hears bill to expand tools for voter-roll maintenance, with privacy and oversight questions raised
Summary
The Committee on Elections heard H.B. 2437, which would authorize monthly DMV matches, expanded use of Social Security death-index checks, death attestations and potential SAVE checks to identify registrations needing confirmation; proponents said it codifies existing practices while opponents warned the bill’s undefined NGO data language and a proposed CORA exemption could reduce transparency.
The Committee on Elections opened a hearing on H.B. 2437, a bill that would add tools and statutory timelines for maintaining Kansas voter registration rolls.
Mike Hyam of the Revisor’s office summarized the measure as adding a new trigger for confirmation notices based on information from the Division of Motor Vehicles when a registrant appears to have moved out of county; clarifying removal for death when the Social Security Administration match or a notarized close-relative attestation verifies death; and requiring the Secretary of State to provide counties with duplicate-check results at least twice a year and monthly DMV residency-change lists. The bill also would ask for an annual Social Security death-index comparison and permit use of SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification of Entitlements) results and other state, federal or nongovernmental sources as additional inputs. Finally, it would add a limited open-records (CORA) exemption…
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