Voter registration list maintenance; voters identified as registered in multiple states. (SB834)
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Description
Voter registration list maintenance; voters identified as registered in multiple states. Requires the Department of Elections to provide to the general registrars a list of registered voters who have been found through list comparisons and data-matching exchanges with other states to be registered in another state. Read the Bill »
Outcome
Bill Has Failed
History
Date | Action |
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01/15/2018 | Presented and ordered printed 18105049D |
01/15/2018 | Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections |
01/23/2018 | Impact statement from DPB (SB834) |
01/23/2018 | Reported from Privileges and Elections (7-Y 5-N) (see vote tally) |
01/25/2018 | Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
01/26/2018 | Read second time and engrossed |
01/29/2018 | Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 16-N) (see vote tally) |
01/29/2018 | Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
01/29/2018 | Passed Senate (24-Y 16-N) (see vote tally) |
01/31/2018 | Placed on Calendar |
01/31/2018 | Read first time |
01/31/2018 | Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections |
02/08/2018 | Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #1 |
02/20/2018 | Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 2-N) |
02/23/2018 | Reported from Privileges and Elections (12-Y 9-N) (see vote tally) |
02/27/2018 | Read second time |
02/28/2018 | Passed by for the day |
03/01/2018 | Read third time |
03/01/2018 | Passed House (51-Y 49-N) |
03/01/2018 | VOTE: PASSAGE (51-Y 49-N) (see vote tally) |
03/05/2018 | Enrolled |
03/05/2018 | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB834ER) |
03/05/2018 | Impact statement from DPB (SB834ER) |
03/05/2018 | Signed by Speaker |
03/08/2018 | Signed by President |
03/14/2018 | Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 14, 2018 |
03/14/2018 | G Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, April 9, 2018 |
04/09/2018 | Governor's recommendation received by Senate |
04/18/2018 | Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (39-Y 0-N) |
04/18/2018 | House rejected Governor's recommendation (48-Y 49-N) |
04/18/2018 | VOTE: REJECTED (48-Y 49-N) |
04/18/2018 | Communicated to Governor |
04/18/2018 | G Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, May 18, 2018 |
05/18/2018 | G Vetoed by Governor |
Comments
While Virginia code already contains a crosschecking mechanism, this bill would unduly burden local registrars by mandating that the Dept of Elections provide registrars with a list of duplicate registrations in other states found through both manual list comparisons and electronic data matching. Registrars would be obligated to spend their valuable time investigating each and every instance, with the possible result that, because of the imperfection of data -- e.g. common personal names -- some voters would be purged from the rolls inadvertently. It is not illegal to be registered to vote in more than one state. It happens all the time as people get caught up in the details of moving to a new locality. In fact, many people believe that filing a change-of-address form with the post office also transfers their voter registration! We need to be taking steps to make registration and voting more convenient and secure, not raising fears about being purged from the voter roll just because you've lived in another state.