How to clean up Illinois’ voter registration rolls

[mopinko]

David Orr

As Cook County clerk — an office whose responsibilities include elections administration for suburban Cook County, I have championed a voter registration renaissance, driven by technology, for modernization of voter registration records, year-round registration, and more accurate voter rolls.

There is a presidential election in six months and though we’ve made tremendous strides in improving the accuracy of voter registration records in recent years, the Illinois voter rolls remain lousy and incomplete.

http://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/how-to-clean-up-illinois-voter-registration-rolls/

david orr is one of the good guy in election protection. not to be confused w the chicago boe.

[Kip Humphrey]

1. This is what David Orr is advocating and there is nothing progressive about it. In fact it has

given this election cycle a brand new never-before-seen form of voter suppression, Voter-Affiliation-Switching.

Funded by the GOP Congress after 2012 for implementation in time for the 2016 election cycle, new central voter registration software is in place now. This new integrated central voter registration software required states to install ES&S central vote tabulators running GEM$ vote tabulation software with which the new central electronic voter registration software integrates.

This is the tool and the means that has enabled massive countrywide Voter-Affiliation-Switching and neatly explains why we have not seen this form of massive voter suppression before this election. We are seeing the results unfolding of which your experience is a part. If this did not scare or concern you when Congress funded it, it should certainly give you pause now with your direct experience added to the extensive evidence across the country of this new form of voter suppression, Voter-Affiliation-Switching.


PowerProfile®
Voter Registration
SOURCE: http://www.essvote.com/products/14/19/Voter-Registration-Software/powerprofile/

ES&S PowerProfile® is a voter registration and election management application that enables election officials to register voters and conduct elections from a central data store. This system allows for both single jurisdictions and states to manage elections from the same interface. Election officials are able to register voters, check eligibility, conduct election activities such as prepare absentee and early voting, recruit election workers, create poll books and rosters, verify petitions, and maintain voter records using a single software solution.

Because PowerProfile is HAVA compliant, it provides unique statewide identifiers to voter records, allows for statewide duplicate checking, and is customizable to meet specific requirements of the customer. PowerProfile also provides individual jurisdictions within a state total control over their voter registration data through role-based access controls. PowerProfile is also scalable and can be deployed for a single county, as well as for an entire state and all counties within that state.
Why Choose PowerProfile and ES&S?

Our People! ES&S’ experience working with government spans over four decades. Through continual development and introduction of innovative elections products, ES&S has emerged as the leading provider of end-to-end, fully integrated voting solutions serving 42 states in the United States. Our team is composed of seasoned experts whose mission is to support our customers’ election processes from start to finish. Access to this experience is a critical component in ensuring your elections run smoothly. Because elections are our sole focus, ES&S provides 24/7 support from election experts located in the United States, dedicated exclusively to voter registration.

Key Features

User-friendly interface designed to facilitate quick and accurate data entry
Real-time comparisons of new and existing registrations against external agencies such as Department of Motor Vehicles, Department of Corrections, and others
Seamless voter record transfers between counties in the same state
Integrated scanning functionality to attach additional image data to voter records, polling places, and petitions
Audit / Activity / Notice logging and reporting
Numerous interfaces for external products such as electronic poll books, ballot-on-demand printing, and electronic ballot delivery
Full absentee tracking from application request through ballot return (including all mail elections)
Robust reporting, with the ability to produce notices/labels/reports and data exports
NCOA (National Change of Address) support
Generation of notices such as ID cards, poll worker notices, and others
Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) interface allows jurisdictions using it to take advantage of postal discounts for CASS-certified mail
GIS interface allowing bi-directional data exchange between GIS applications and PowerProfile
HAVA and NVRA compliant
Granular security utilizing role-based access controls as well as encryption of data at rest and in-transit
A mobile-friendly web interface allowing voters to look up provisional and absentee ballot status, view sample ballots, and look up precinct and polling location information

THIS IS A VERY BAD INTEGRATION OF TRADE SECRET SOFTWARE WHICH HAS THE ABILITY TO CONTROL ELECTION OUTCOMES.

[mopinko]

2. we have open primaries here.

and really, its not the technology, it is how it is used.

[Kip Humphrey]

3. You fail to appreciate the software capabilities here. The software enables stealing elections and

temptation to do so will always prove too great to resist by someone craving power. BTW, open or closed primaries are irrelevent with respect to this software integration.