Amended
IN
Senate
May 19, 2014 |
Amended
IN
Senate
April 10, 2014 |
Amended
IN
Senate
March 28, 2014 |
Introduced by Senator Block |
February 18, 2014 |
This bill would provide that all persons not already registered to vote who are qualified to be registered to vote and who complete an application for a new or renewed California driver’s license, instruction permit, junior permit, or identification card with the Department of Motor Vehicles shall be registered to vote if the person provides written consent to be registered to vote, as specified. If the person named on the application would not be 18 years
of age at the time of the next election but otherwise satisfies the requirements to be registered to vote, he or she would be automatically registered to vote at the time that he or she will be 18 years of age by the time of the next election if the person provides written consent to be registered to vote on the application, as specified. The bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to send an electronic copy of each of these documents, with any information that is not required to register to vote redacted, to the elections official of the county in which the person named on the document resides, unless the person has not filled out the application in its entirety, declines to be registered to vote, or has indicated on the application that he or she is already registered to vote. The bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to keep the information collected confidential, unless the law requires otherwise. The bill would require the elections official to maintain these documents for voters who qualify to be registered to vote under the bill in a manner identical to which the affidavits of registration are maintained.
Under existing law, affidavits of registration are used to verify the residence of a voter, to verify the signature of a voter, and to verify the political affiliation of a voter. Existing law requires a county
elections official to maintain the affidavits of registration for voters within the county, to maintain a voter registration index based upon the valid affidavits of registration for voters within the county, to keep voter information listed on the affidavit of registration confidential in certain circumstances, and to cancel the affidavits of registration for persons who are no longer qualified to vote. Existing law permits a county elections official to duplicate uncanceled affidavits of registration for the voters in the county and to store the information contained in the affidavits of registration by way of data processing equipment. Existing law requires the county elections official to maintain canceled affidavits of voter registration, as prescribed.
This bill would require that the completed applications of the Department of Motor Vehicles that cause a voter to become registered to vote be used for verification purposes in the same manner as affidavits of
registration. The bill would also require that the completed applications of the Department of Motor Vehicles be maintained in the same manner as affidavits of registration, be included in the preparation of the voter index, be kept confidential in certain circumstances in the same manner as affidavits of registration, and be canceled in the same manner as affidavits of registration. The bill would permit a county elections official to duplicate completed applications of the Department of Motor Vehicles that cause voters to become registered to vote and to store the information contained in the applications by way of data processing equipment. The bill would require the county elections official to maintain canceled applications and forms that cause voters to be registered to
vote.