Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File - Paperless Archives

KCSO Case #Unassigned
April 24, 2007 [hpJ
Witness Statement
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STEVE HOBBS:
Okay.
All right. Urn, and then we met with the Prosecuting Attorney's Office in
March, went over our first, urn, several batches that we had pulled in the
patches that, urn, we provided, we provided a matrix that tracks kind of
that whole process and all of the documents. It includes the, urn, the
batch, in, that we bundled them in, that we processed by, urn, the date
that we sent them to the Prosecuting Attorney.
The reg number in our system, first name, last name, date of birth, their
status right now, are they active or inactive in our system as of the time
that we generated this report. Um, whether or not they passed at the, in
the voter registration database because if they passed the voter
registration database the presumption is it's a good registration, um, that
we sent a voter notification card. And if it was returned, urn, if we, if the, if
the registration was fatally pended or was missing required information
and a letter was sent for that and if it was returned ...
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STEVE HOBBS:
I'll ask you a question right there.
Yes.
STEVE HOBBS:
Are you saying then that somebody might have come passed the voter
registration datab.ase, so productively valid but they might have been
missing information on their form and so that's why you sent out the
letter?
Yes.
STEVE HOBBS:
Okay. All right.
Potentially, potentially. Um, and then we have the failed 10 letter, which
is that letter that we send out around election cycle to let them that they
have an 10 requirement in order for their ballot to be counted. And then in
February we had an entirely by mail election in the City of Seattle related
to the viaduct, and, um, because of that, it meant that poll voters who
traditionally voted at the polls had to vote an absentee ballot. When we
process absentee ballots, we actually do a signature comparison to, from
the ballot to the signature on file, um, in our database.
Poll voters we don't do that for because they have 10 when they come to
the polling location. So we don't validate it against the electronic
signature that we captured online. Because we knew we had to do that
and for a number of these voters that had been many, many years since
they had updated their signature on line, we sent out letters to everyone
in the City of Seattle asking for signature updates that was a poll voter, so
that we could and capture that signature prior to getting the absentee
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