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House hearing weighs NVRA changes to broaden list maintenance and expand data-sharing
Summary
At a House Administration Committee hearing, witnesses recommended expanding the National Voter Registration Act’s required list‑maintenance criteria and increasing access to federal databases such as SAVE and HAVA data exchanges after a member of Congress cited registration errors in several states.
An unnamed congresswoman pressed witnesses at a House Administration Committee hearing to consider amending the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) to give election officials broader authority and better data to detect ineligible registrations.
The congresswoman opened the hearing by saying, “I am deeply concerned about the integrity of our elections,” and cited what she described as Illinois’s ‘‘long history of election fraud and irregularities’’ and recent instances where noncitizens allegedly obtained state driver’s licenses and were registered to vote. She told witnesses Congress must update the NVRA to account for states that she said "refuse to follow the law."
Professor Morley, a witness…
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