Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File - Paperless Archives

KCSO Case #Unassigned
April 24, 2007 [hpJ
Witness Statement
Detl I
Including the ballots, cause we also, if some one was flagged for an
absentee ballot on their registration, they received an absentee ballot
because it's auto generated by the system as well and those were
returned, so there's, you know, all the cost associated with all of those
different documents that we're required to process by State law and, you
know, receive back and handled once they come back in addition to just
the inputting of a registration itself. Does that make sense? Any
questions?
STEVE HOBBS:
That makes sense, when you, um, after I use the right term here, when
you inactivate the voter, does not mean it's technically removed from the
voter list, it's still on the list just inactive.
1...-_____
I: That is correct. He's inactive for two years if there's, two federal
...... elections, if there's no activity on their registration for two federal
elections, at that point we would remove them from the voter registration
rolls. But in the mean time they stay there, they don't receive additional
mail and stuff for them. There is one other, um, item that is sent out
which I do not believe we have captured on here but when we receive a
returned piece of mail and we inactivate a voter registration record, we're
required to send out what we call our confirmation card and it's basically
giving them one more chance. No, it's a confirmation card, its different
then the voter notification card. The confirmation card is forwardable, so
it gives them one more chance if they're entered wrong, they moved since
they filled out the registration form, whatever, to get it to the person where
they may be, there's no (unintell words) so that they can give us updated
information and they know that we have inactivated them in our voter
registration roll. So it's one more dip at it for them. Okay.
STEVE HOBBS:
Yeah. Perfect.
And so that one isn't captured on there, I noted, um ...
STEVE HOBBS:
What is the easy (unintell words) do you know that, somebody going
through?
Um, we would have to go through different turns again and get them.
Um, but every time we have, wherever you see a return piece of mail, um,
really the first round, you know, or the first round that we upload into the
system, um, would generate the confirmation card. Now there may have
been several of these went out in quick succession so we didn't know
that we were going to get a return piece of mail on, you know, the
February and March elections was right on the wake of the February
election, so we would have sent out another round and maybe not
inactivate the record yet. Because there are periods of time when we
can't do certain activities, because we've already sent absentee ballots
out, things like that.
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