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Bill to let DMV share Real ID citizenship data with Secretary of State draws support and technical questions
Summary
SB 438 would authorize sharing certain DMV Real ID citizenship indicators with the Secretary of State to reduce wrongful turnaways. Advocates pushed for statutory codification; the Secretary of State and DMV warned about technical, privacy, and e-poll-book readiness.
Senator Rebecca Perkins Quoca presented SB 438 to let the Department of Safety and the Secretary of State share limited citizenship information collected during Real ID issuance so election officials can determine whether a voter's previously-provided DMV documentation satisfies registration requirements at the polls.
Advocacy groups and clerks generally supported the idea as a way to reduce unnecessary turnaways. "This is data that the state already has," Kate Horgan of Secure Democracy told the…
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