Overview
- The letters ask voters to confirm a driver’s license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number or to ensure their registration name matches official records, with many mismatches attributed to minor data-entry differences.
- Voters who do not reply may be offered an opportunity to update their information at the polls and will remain eligible to vote, with updates also accepted by mail, online, or in person.
- The elections board says the identity-verification mailings will become a routine effort conducted twice a year in January and August.
- Officials say this initiative is separate from the Registration Repair Project, which has resolved more than 32,000 incomplete registrations and reduced missing-ID records from 103,329 to 70,709 under a federal settlement.
- Under the court-approved plan, voters still on the repair list who have not provided the required identification must cast a provisional ballot for federal offices until their records are updated.