Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File - Paperless Archives

KCSO Case #Unassigned
April 24, 2007 [hpj
Witness Statement
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I: Um-hm. Um-hm. And they are few and far between on these first initials,
'----------1 urn, of valid ones. Cause most of them have a no for validating at the
State level.
STEVE HOBBS:
Okay. Good.
Urn, alright, so once we data enter our registrations into our system, a
card called a voter notification card is, urn, generated from the system
and mailed to the address, it's non-forwardable. Urn, those were sent to
all of these Acorn registrations. If, if it's not a valid address and/or
person, they don't keep it, accept it. Urn, it is sent back to us and the
registration is made inactive on our end.
Urn, so that voter notification card went out in addition there is, there's
required fields on the voter registration forms that must be complete in
order for it to be considered valid, urn, there in the code. If, if they are, if it
is missing, we have to send a verification letter to that address, to that
person and say, hey, you missed your date of birth, we need your date of
birth in order to process your registration. Urn, so those letters went to
anyone who was fatally pended, there's a number of registration that are,
what we call fatally pended in our, in our network, in our database
system, urn, that received these letters as well. Many of those letters also
were returned, which is tracked in the matrix that you received from us.
STEVE HOBBS:
Right.
Urn, in addition to that for each election, urn, if someone doesn't validate
for 10 through the State Voter Registration database, they still are illegible
to vote in the election but what they're required to do is either provide 10
at the polling location or they are to put 10 in with their absentee ballot
when it's returned if they flag their registration for absentee. Urn, in both
cases, we sent notice to the voters as well to let them this requirement, so
that they're prepared when they go to the polls or their, you know, send
back that piece of information with their absentee ballot or shortly
thereafter. So those pieces of mail went out as well for these registrars or
registrations.
STEVE HOBBS:
Oid you track if those were returned?
Yes, they're on your matrix as well, urn, and I have samples of the form
letters, urn, in, in your, in the file that you received. Urn, in March we
started sending you batches of, urn, the registrars that look suspicious,
urn, and we also were in the middle of processing March election as well.
So we had another round of letters that we had to send out for failed 10 to
those voters. In all cases where mail was returned to us, we inactivated
the voter, urn, based on the returned piece of mail.
...---------.1: Including the ballots that bounced back.
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