Voter purging conference call

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Conference Call: The Perils of Voter Purging and Options for Voter Registration Enhancement
Progressive States Network will host a conference call this Friday, April 18th, at 1:00 pm (EST) on The Perils of Voter Purging and Options for Voter Registration Enhancement. The call will discuss in more detail the policies and issues discussed in today's Stateside Dispatch.


Please RSVP at: http://snipr.com/voterpurging


Speakers will include:
Don Wright, Counsel for the North Carolina Board of Elections
Beth Fraser, Director of Governmental Affairs, Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State
Myrna Perez, Counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center of Justice at NYU
Christian Smith-Socaris, Election Reform Policy Specialist, Progressive States Network



States Begin Implementing Automatic Re-registration: While no state is currently taking full advantage of the resources at their disposal to maintain registrations when voters move, Minnesota took an important first step this year when they passed HB 1546, sponsored by Rep. Steve Simon, a law to establish automatic re-registration for all voters who move anywhere within the state. Now, when a voter changes their residential address with the United States Postal Service, instead of merely de-registering a voter the election official notifies the jurisdiction into which the voter moved and has them added to the voter rolls at their new place of residence. Oregon has enacted similar legislation. These steps will help thousands of voters maintain their registrations, but they currently lack best practices safeguards that would ensure that voters maintain control of where they are registered and that would require verification of an address change from more than one source. See Project Votes' model list maintenance legislation for best practices in this regard.