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Status of proposed rule changes as of 9/2011 Submit your election fraud complaint to the GAB
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GAB Meeting May 21, 2013Considering test protocol for wireless transmission of election results, item G on the Agenda GAB meeting August 28, 20121) Should electronic documents be approved for proof of residence? Staff recommendation (3 pages) - staff is reluctant to approve it without Board approval, and expects to hear from election officials and the public. (For the letters that initiated this consideration, see pages 173 to 178 of the full materials.) 2) Should ES&S' DS200 digital tabulator be approved for use in Wisconsin? Staff recommendation (2 MB, 12 pages +) is "Yes", with these conditions: This system must always be configured to include the following options: a. Automatic rejection of overvoted ballots with no opportunity for the voter to override. For information on this from 2009, see http://www.fairelectionswi.com/Overvote/Overvote.html b. Automatic rejection of crossover ballots with no opportunity for the voter to override. c. Digital ballot images to be captured for all ballots tabulated by the system. Full Agenda and materials Click and Mail now available at MyvoteWi.gov"Click and Mail"Wisconsin GAB Reverses Course, Will Allow ALL Eligible Voters to Use New Registration ModuleOn March 22, 2011, in response to public testimony, the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB) reversed course, and agreed to open their upcoming enhanced voter registration module to all eligible voters. According to a March 23 letter from Nat Robinson, the Elections Division Administrator, “The Board decided that voters who do not have a Wisconsin driver license or a State-issued Identification should also be able to use this new registration system.” This new registration module is called "Click and Mail" (formerly “Enhanced Mail-In Voter Registration”). First presented in an August 2010 memo, this will be implemented under existing law. It is a series of web pages that assist the voter in filing out a registration form. When the voter is finished, they print, sign, and mail the form. Until now, it was the GAB staff’s intent to restrict this to those who had a Wisconsin driver’s license or identification card from the Department of Transportation. Thanks are due to five national organizations that sent a January 12, 2011 letter to the GAB asking that enhanced mail-in registration be open to all eligible voters. These organizations are expert in voter registration modernization: Demos, Project Vote, Brennan Center for Justice, Fair Elections Legal Network, and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Click and Mail registration has several advantages:
Eight states have paperless online registration, but restrict it to those with a state driver’s license or state ID card. These states should add Click and Mail registration in order to have convenient registration that is nondiscriminatory. Click and Mail registration could be utilized by many other states under existing laws. The March 22, 2011 GAB meeting was recorded by
Wisconsin Eye October 13, 2010 Letter objecting to excluding voters who do not have a driver's license or state D card. GAB December 13 response letter gives no reasons for exclusions. The Driver License Status of the Voting Age Population in Wisconsin by Employment & Training Institute at UW-Milwaukee 2011 GAB Meetings
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Meeting of Nov 11, 2008 Testimony on Security Rule. Testimony on Observer Rule August 27 (9:30) & 28 (9:00), 2008 Agenda includes affirming recount manual, administrative rules for observers and registration, reconsideration of rule for HAVA check leading to provisional ballots; and issue ads. Letter from Adam Skaggs of Brennan Center on HAVA check. Press release from Wis League of Women Voters Meeting of July 15 & 16 - New proposed category of provisional ballot - see Malischke letter and Brennan Center letter They will be reviewing the Election Administration manual, which contains sections on pre-election testing of voting machines, and the Board of Canvassers. Comment letter - Board of Canvassers section is inadequate Comment letter - Pre-election testing of voting machines is inadequate GAB response to above letters (from July 15-16 agenda): "This Election Administration Manual is the basis for our training curriculum for municipal clerks. The manual covers municipal clerks’ election administration duties and responsibilities. It is not the sole source of informational materials provided to clerks with respect to their election administration duties. The manual was revised in July, 2007. A copy of the manual can be viewed at the following link: http://elections.state.wi.us/docview.asp?docid=11811&locid=47Paul Malischke has submitted a letter to the staff with a series of suggestions on how the manual can be improved with respect to pre-election testing of voting equipment. He has also submitted a separate letter with comments on the need to provide more direction to Boards of Canvassers on how to conduct the post election canvass of election results. A copy of Mr. Malischke’s correspondence accompanies this memorandum. His suggestions have merit and deserve consideration. There are some steps the staff can initiate to address his concerns for the Fall elections. However, now is not the time to rewrite our manuals. Time after time when a few or more clerks gather and provide feedback to us, they beg and plead with us not to send them a whole lot of new and/or material changes to directives, rules, regulations and guidance. Practically anything that remotely seems “new” will be viewed and perceived as new. Therefore, in keeping with the clerks’ mantra, for this upcoming Fall election season, we should not revise any of our manuals. It is too late for that. Second, Nat plans to initiate a “post-mortem” and revisit all of our election administration business practices in 2009. That is the time to take the suggestions that Mr. Malischke and others have made into consideration and implement with appropriate feedback from local election officials. Staff will develop guidance for implementation by municipal clerks that provides additional direction on pre-election voting equipment testing. This guidance will be submitted for review by the Board at its August 28, 2008 meeting. Our staff has been planning to have sample test decks for the partisan primary available after the candidates have been certified. The staff meets with the County Clerks 3 times a year in March, June and September. At each meeting, we recognize those clerks who have submitted a correctly prepared canvass with a gold or silver star. One of our performance measures in the budget process is reducing the number of errors on county canvasses. We provide directions before each election on how to properly complete the canvass report and what procedures to follow. In June 2004 and June 2005, State Elections Board staff made one hour presentations to the county clerks on how to conduct the county canvass. Staff will take Mr. Malischke’s comments to add more detail and direction to the information we provide to county and municipal clerks on the conduct of the post-election canvass." GAB gets $2 million grant from the EAC for data Wisconsin grant application EAC grant announcement EAC Appendix A detailing what data is required May 5 Meeting Gov't Accountability Board meeting at 9:30 in Madison Letters: close the Security loopholes; and standardize on optical scan; from Paul Malischke February 25, 2008 Meeting Ann Frisch and Paul Malischke presented a request to investigate undervotes in Neenah. GAB staff agreed to investigate. Request for improvements needed to recount procedures. Staff said these comments had merit and will bring this back to the May 5 meeting State Elections Board Nov 28. They passed a resolution to direct staff to promulgate rules for pre-election testing of voting machines, per a request from Paul Malischke Security of Voting Equipment and Ballots Security Rules were on the agenda of the State Elections Board Meeting of Sept 12. Amendments to strengthen them were proposed on behalf of Fair Election Wisconsin. The members of the Board made favorable comments towards the amendments, and staff will bring back the next version at their meeting Nov. 28 in Madison. Contact Paul
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