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After receiving letters from the Department of Justice requesting access to state voter data, 10 Democratic secretaries of state on Tuesday drafted their own letter, citing “immense concern” with how that data might have been shared across the federal government. The secretaries write that in recent meetings with DOJ and Department of Homeland Security officials they received “misleading and at times contradictory information” on the topic of their unredacted statewide voter rolls, which can include information like driver’s license numbers, the last four digits of Social Security numbers and birth dates. Colin Wood, StateScoop.
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Innovation for Public Records
Centralizing Requests in Washington State
By April Tan (Policy Lead, Center for Election Innovation & Research);
Carly Colen (Research Assistant, Center for Election Innovation & Research); and
Stuart Holmes (Washington Office of the Secretary of State)
Election offices across the country experienced an influx of public records requests following the 2020 election, draining local officials’ resources and creating a potential opening for the spread of false information.
To ease the burden on local offices and make the public records process more efficient, the Washington state legislature passed SB 5459 in 2023 to centralize the response process for election-related records requests.
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