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Sat Oct 24, 2015, 01:37 PM Oct 2015

Federal law requires a data base to verify voters.

http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/publications/Wisconsin.pdf


"Wisconsin
Registration Deadline
Wisconsin has several “safe harbor” deadlines: forms should be
received or postmarked by the second Wednesday before an election
(13 days for a federal general election). However, municipal clerks
may accept late-filed forms as long as the registration lists can be
revised to accommodate the applicant before Election Day. On showing proof of residence or filing a corroborating affidavit signed by another voter with proof of residence, an applicant may also register in person at the clerk’s office through the day before Election Day, to receive a certificate allowing her to vote. Finally, an applicant may also register at the polls on Election Day.1
Database Implementation Status
Wisconsin is currently constructing a top-down, centralized voter registration system, in which municipal clerks will have direct access to a statewide database. Wisconsin’s vendor, Accenture, was not able to complete the construction of the system by January 1, 2006.2
Entering Voter Registration Information
Who inputs voter registration information? Municipal clerks generally review and enter information from voter registration forms in their jurisdictions into the statewide system.
What happens to voter registration forms submitted at state registration agencies?
Because it offers Election Day registration, Wisconsin need not accept registration forms at various state agencies under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. The Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) does not accept voter registration forms. Any forms received by the state will be forwarded to the appropriate municipality for review and entry.
How are most forms submitted? In the Election Assistance Commission’s 2004 survey, Wisconsin did not report the distribution of how its voter registration forms were submitted.3
Voter Registration Form
The relevant portions of the voter registration form are included at the end of this section.
Processing of Forms Without Identifying Numbers
How will the state treat an application with an affirmative indication that the applicant has no valid identifying number? Wisconsin has no stated policy.


Making the List WI - 1
How will the state treat an application without an identifying number and without an affirmative indication that the applicant has no such number? The application is considered “pending.” If uncorrected (see below), the applicant will have to re-register on Election Day.
How will the state treat an application listing an identifying number that is either incomplete or illegible? If the applicant is otherwise eligible, she will be considered registered."

"Accenture can't design or build voter registration databases
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While playing a major role in the Enron scandal in 2001, the accounting firm Arthur Andersen split. The consulting branch became the offshore, Bermuda-based company now known as Accenture.
Always aggressive in marketing, Accenture proposed to a number of states that it could develop the statewide voter registration databases mandated by the Help America Vote Act of 2002. Naive and incompetent at best, crooked at worst, state election directors in many states thought the clever demonstrations presented by Accenture were the answers to their dreams. Besides, it was only taxpayer dollars they were spending.
The articles below outline many, but by no means all, of the resultant database disasters after Accenture was hired.
Note the recurring theme throughout from election officials that everything is fine, trust us. But there are many fundamental, unanswered questions about Accenture:
• There is the unanswered question of why Americans should trust something so fundamental as elections to an offshore-based company?
• There is the open question of how much Accenture has relied on H1-B programmers in these disasters? Given that as of June 2006 Accenture has 1,223 of its high-end technical positions filled by H1-B workers one suspects that many of its problems might be related to an undue reliance on foreign workers.
• There is an overriding concern about national security when foreign workers are employed in such a fundamental operation as the control of American elections.

Table 8: Some of Accenture's problem areas as of January 2008"

http://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-95.htm





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