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KCSO Case #Unassigned
April 24, 2007 [hpj
Witness Statement
Det.1 I
registrations were indeed real people or not. Um, there was a matrix that,
Steve, do you have a copy of that. I don't know if I have that.
1...-_____ ----1 1 : I made six copies of that.
STEVE HOBBS:
And I've given a copy (unintell words).
This matrix called Acorn Registrations, urn, we made calls to 200 forms,
um, of those, we con ... were able to reach two people, I believe and they
denied they had filled out the registration form, um, the name and phone
numbers were a match, um, but again they had different date of births on
the registrations from the individuals and they said they didn't fill them
out. We had a similar problem with registrations just prior to the 2004
Election. During that election the pattern that I understood, I was not in
for the registration at the time but what I understood was, um, the
registrars at that time had taken a phone book and written names and
address out of the phone book and used different date of births and so we
would have same name, address that were validated at that level but the
date of birth of the person was different, so it wasn't considered a
duplicate registration in our system. That's why we tried so hard this time
to not have to put them in because we ended up with a bunch of
registrations left the last time that we did this effort.
DET.I
And was that Acorn before?
I don't recall if that Acorn. Like I said that was before my time. I was not
apprise that it was Acorn when we got these, they didn't say oh, that's
them again doing what they did last time. It seem like it was more
individuals at the time. I can get you more information if you guys need
that but because they had that, that experience in 2004, we certainly were
nervous to go down this road again in 2006.
STEVE HOBBS:
Who made the 200 phone calls?
I· Um,1 l she was one of our, um, she's an acting lead in voter
---------...... servIces and she handles our phone bank normally and our customer
service outreach for, um, voter services. So I had only her make the calls
so it was contain to one person.
STEVE HOBBS:
Okay.
1...-______
Um, doing that effort for us so that we had some consistency and we had
a script that we gave her, um, thatl Ihelped us craft for
I
.... communicate with those. I don't have that available but certainly I can
make that available if you guys would like. Okay. Urn, so we did the
outreach in December, um, and January we were advised to process the
registrations, so in February, um, we did that. And the hope was both
with the Secretary of State's Office and, um, with the Prosecuting
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