These services included motor vehicle title and registration and
voter registration systems.
Armed with personal information obtained through legitimate or illegitimate sources, hackers could know enough to impersonate voters and change key information using online
voter registration systems.
Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Michael Haas said Homeland Security told 21 states that «Russian government cyber actors» targeted their state
voter registration systems in 2016.
«Once again, New York's archaic
voter registration system has highlighted dramatic shortcomings in the administration of elections across the state,» the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement, calling for automatic voter registration and same - day voter registration.
Lucas Almonte, legislative director for the CUNY University Student Senate said, «New York's paper - based
voter registration system disadvantages young voters, particularly at a place like CUNY where many students do not have a DMV id.
As New York surveyed the damage, there came calls for state lawmakers to change the state's «archaic
voter registration system» to address potential further disenfranchisement in the democratic process for some citizens.
The governor's also calling for the state to adopt an automatic
voter registration system which would send voters» information directly to the county board of elections.
Beyond potentially undermining voters» faith in our electoral system, these claims distract from a very real issue: New York's
voter registration system is badly in need of modernization.
«It was the governor who unilaterally put into place New York's first online
voter registration system and has repeatedly advanced additional voting reforms,» Rich Azzopardi, the governor's senior deputy communications director, said in an email.
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman unveiled an extensive voting reform package Wednesday that aims to streamline New York's
voter registration system, boost voter participation and increase voter turnout.
Between March 10 and March 20, more than 40,883 people registered to vote through New York state's online
voter registration system.
As the deadline to register to vote in New York state's presidential primary nears, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday an unprecedented surge in voter registration through the state's online
voter registration system.
MyDMV, New York state's online
voter registration system, processed more than 40,883 voter registration applications within a 10 - day period between March 10 and March 20, according to a press release from Cuomo's office.
Zimbabwe is using the biometric
voter registration system for the first time to compile a new voters» roll.
The state's online
voter registration system processed a record 40,883 applications between March 10 and March 20, Cuomo said, including 20,889 from first - time voters.
«Once again, New York's archaic
voter registration system has highlighted dramatic shortcomings in the administration of elections across the state,» Horner said.
The bill — the Voter Registration Modernization Act — would create a national online
voter registration system, requiring all states to allow eligible voters to register online and update their information electronically, according to Gillibrand's office.
The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles» online
voter registration system processed more than 214,000 applications during the first two weeks of October.
Massachusetts has launched a new
voter registration system.
Not exact matches
But according to the NSA report, evidence that the hackers were also stealing the login credentials of people with administrative access to the
voter -
registration systems raises concerns that the Russians were able to do «anything they wanted» — including, Bardin said, breaching voting machines.
And the fourth was to breach US voting
systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal
registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate
voters in future elections.
The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through
voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational
systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.
Despite introducing a more flexible electoral
registration system, Labour failed to stem the collapse in the numbers of
voters who are missing from registers.
So you could argue that the current
system is actually biased against Labour, and therefore PR will actually disadvantage Labour even more unless rates of
voter registration are improved and compulsory voting introduced.
The state unveiled an online
voter -
registration system yesterday that allows New Yorkers to become
voters from their own computers, and eventually from new electronic devices at Department of Motor Vehicles offices.
On the other hand, a new
system for
voter registration brought in this time round is bad for Labour.
The controversy over
voter registration is undermining confidence in the
system.
They demand a universal Right to Vote, a Ranked - Voting
System, and automatic
voter registration.
I applaud the Vote Better NY coalition's efforts to modernize the
system and its support for early voting, expanded
voter registration and calls for a clear and concise ballot design.»
Blair Horner, Executive Director of NYPIRG, said, «New York ranks consistently as one of the nation's worst states in terms of
voter participation, driven by our archaic
voter registration and election administration
systems.
From puzzling ballot layouts to prohibitive
voter registration rules, New York's byzantine electoral
system has proven to be at best ineffective and at worst discriminatory.
We won't allow it — with your help, we will modernize our antiquated
system by bringing Early Voting to New York State, along with automatic and same - day
voter registration and no - fault absentee ballots,» the email states.
The constitution minister was under pressure over
voter registration, with fears that there could be a 20 % decrease in the number of registered
voters as a result of the transition from the current
system.
He also announced the creation of a
system of automatic
voter registration through the Department of Motor Vehicles.
«Governor Cuomo is the first in the last two decades to really understand that, putting forward the funding for two key projects, allowing online
voter registration through the DMV... and funding the upcoming update of the campaign finance disclosure
system.
Between March 10 and March 20, more than 40,883
voter registration applications were processed through New York's online voting
registration system.
The group is pushing New York to adopt a range of
voter system chances, including early voting provisions, which New York has been largely lagging behind most of the country, as well as same - day
registration.
That this House notes the improved security of ballots in Northern Ireland following implementation of the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 which has also resulted in increased levels of
voter registration; further notes the successful prosecutions for electoral fraud in Slough, Peterborough and Birmingham; further notes the 2007 Council of Europe investigation into electoral fraud in the UK and the recent report entitled Purity of Elections in the UK: Causes for Concern, published by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd which highlights how vulnerable the electoral
system is to electoral fraud; and calls on the Government to improve electoral security across the rest of the UK.
In other words, the people already under - represented among
voters for many reasons, including the lack of an automatic electoral
registration system.
At the same time, Schneiderman wants to implement a
system of permanent
registration by having the state Board of Elections and local boards update
registration when a
voter who gives their consent moves.
The Labour leader said almost one million
voters were «missing» from the register and blamed the «hasty» introduction of the new
system of individual
voter registration.
There are long - standing debates about the merits and demerits of proportional electoral
systems, individual
voter registration, constituency equalisation and so on.
The new
system replaced the vast majority of paper forms and is designed to help centralize the digital transmission of
voter registration applications, as well as minimize errors in the
system.
Modernizing Voting in New York to Increase Participation in the Democratic
System - «[A] llow early voting, and adopt both automatic
voter registration and same day
voter registration.»
In addition, the governor directed the city and state university
systems to investigate their own campus
voter registration efforts in an effort to boost student
voter registration numbers.
Massachusetts is the 21st state to offer online
voter registration, a
system Secretary of State William Galvin, the state's top election official, said will remove one more administrative impediment to registering to vote.
voter registration, protect citizens from
voter suppression efforts, cut voting
system bureaucracy
State law requires the two
systems to provide
voter registration forms to students at the beginning of each new school year, as well as in January in presidential years.
«You overlay that with the lousy
system of running elections in general — which is,
voter registration laws are cumbersome, we have a closed primary
system, getting on the ballot is difficult — and as a result New York has anemic
voter turnout, one of the worst in the country.»
Cuomo also is creating a new
voter registration task force made up of members of his administration to oversee the effort, including ways to create «secure» online voting
registration systems in different state agencies, similar to the ones already used by the Department of Motor Vehicles.