Last week I wrote about HR 1719 and expressed my general support for the bill.  Coincidentally, we’re at a time in our process where we need to order some new registration forms for Deputy Registrars.  We are now going to add the e-mail address to our forms in anticipation of some of the changes that might come down regarding e-mail updates.  We already have a location for an e-mail address on our NVRA form.

No doubt, some number of election officials in America will be in the same position as us.  Hopefully, they will add the e-mail address to their forms as well.  At the same time, experience tells us that some will be behind the curve or limited by statutes.  This is the type of practical move forward that is limited by the lack of communication between election officials.   Gerken points to this problem in the Democracy Index.  How it gets resolved is still an open question.

I’d also like to see legislation that protects the privacy of these e-mail addresses.  Campaigns no doubt would love to get ahold of them, but they should be merely for administrative purposes.  Hopefully, that becomes part of any enabling legislation.  For our office, we do not release phone numbers or email addresses.

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