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Honourable Senator,

Please vote NO on HB3521B!

This is a bad bill. It is an expensive bill. It sets up the beginning of a system that will gatherinformation from other departments besides the elections office, starting with the DMV and will

eventually go beyond to any 'voter registration agency' that collects citizenship, signature, age, andresidency into one file for the state with many agencies having access to the file.

NO one is even looking if this person is conscious. This sets up a system where our most vulnerablecould be taken advantaged of. While I know that this bill only includes the DMV currently, there arenumbers of people who just get ID cards that live in foster care or group homes that are verydevelopmentally disadvantaged. Will all of these folks get registered to vote? I don't think they couldrespond at least on their own, in the 2 week time frame. It will entirely depend on their care givers.This system makes these folks vulnerable for exploitation.

The smaller counties have objected to this system because of the burden it puts on their budgets. This isan unnecessary burden for these counties, Some will go financially insolvent because of programs likethis. The Secretary will come in and have to run these election functions because the county will not beable to do so. The citizens of the county will still have to pick up the bill. Seems like we are setting upa system for financial failure for these counties. The system has yet to be developed, it will be costlyand will require ongoing maintenance fees to keep it secure for the many agencies which will haveaccess to these files. The liability for disclosure of someone's political and private information is ofgreat concern and could render the state vulnerable for a law suit if miss handled.

Removing barriers to vote is the reason given for this bill. The problem, THE BARRIER, according toPEW research, is not that people can't get registered, it is because they are not interested in politics, donot like politics, and do not want to vote. Forcing these folks to register will only further alienate thesefolks from voting. We have made it very convenient to vote, there are many venues to accomplish this.Even offering online registration. See attached research papers.

Of those who the Secretary said registered after the registration deadline but before the election day andwere unable to vote. How does that number compare to the average monthly total of people whoregister anyway? People who move here from out of state (which would still have allowed them to voteon the Presidential ballot). It would be interesting to compare the number against the normal monthsnew registration numbers to see what the difference would be. I don't think it is as significant a problemas it first may appear. because there are many new people getting registered every month. This is a anongoing process.

This bill is a solution to a non existent problem. Many are concerned that this bill is an excuse to set upa surveillance program of Oregon's people. An information gathering system to monitor the people. Itwill have to follow Oregon's residents to know where they live, if that is temporary or permanent, (ifthey still think of Oregon as their home) their age, their citizenship status (How US citizenshipqualification is specifically collected should be stated in the bill, as this is a point of conflict in the past.Does their citizenship status from their DMV record, which required proof of citizenship, match theirvoter registration record?), are they serving time for a felony in prison. The filtering of all people inOregon to determine their qualifications to vote is no easy task. Will we continue to register peopleliving out of state that 'think of Oregon as their home?' There are a lot of people who live outside ofOregon that vote in our elections. They just supply a different mailing address to their application, than

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their resident address. As long as the mailing address doesn't come back as undeliverable these folksget a ballot.

There are problems in our registration process that do need to be addressed. The system proposed inHB3521B is an expensive experiment. It puts our citizens at risk for abuse. It does not solve the realproblem of 'removing barriers' to vote. In fact it puts a further barrier to accurate voter rolls as required

in the voting act of 1993, to clean up the voter rolls. This system will register lots of people who willhave to correct and/or unregistered themselves. Will it take the dead people off the voter rolls? It willbe adding people who do not want to vote.

Please Vote NO on HB3521B

Thank you for your service to our state and your attention to these concerns.

Respectfully,

Janice Dysinger

Heritage Foundation: Mandatory Voter Registration: How Universal Registration Threatens ElectoralIntegrityBy Hans A. von Spakovsky

Pew Upgrading Voter Registration.pdf

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