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 gather information 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, and residency 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 vulnerable could be taken advantaged of. While I know that this bill only includes the DMV currently, there are numbers of people who just get ID cards that live in foster care or group homes that are very developmentally disadvantaged. Will all of these folks get registered to vote? I don't think they could respond 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 is an unnecessary burden for these counties, Some will go financially insolvent because of programs like this. The Secretary will come in and have to run these election functions because the county will not be able to do so. The citizens of the county will still have to pick up the bill. Seems like we are setting up a system for financial failure for these counties. The system has yet to be developed, it will be costly and will require ongoing maintenance fees to keep it secure for the many agencies which will have access to these files. The liability for disclosure of someone's political and private information is of great 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 to PEW research, is not that people can't get registered, it is because they are not interested in politics, do not like politics, and do not want to vote. Forcing these folks to register will only further alienate these folks 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 and were unable to vote. How does that number compare to the average monthly total of people who register anyway? People who move here from out of state (which would still have allowed them to vote on the Presidential ballot). It would be interesting to compare the number against the normal months new registration numbers to see what the difference would be. I don't think it is as significant a problem as it first may appear. because there are many new people getting registered every month. This is a an ongoing process. This bill is a solution to a non existent problem. Many are concerned that this bill is an excuse to set up a surveillance program of Oregon's people. An information gathering system to monitor the people. It will have to follow Oregon's residents to know where they live, if that is temporary or permanent, (if they still think of Oregon as their home) their age, their citizenship status (How US citizenship qualification 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 their voter registration record?), are they serving time for a felony in prison. The filtering of all people in Oregon to determine their qualifications to vote is no easy task. Will we continue to register people living out of state that 'think of Oregon as their home?' There are a lot of people who live outside of Oregon that vote in our elections. They just supply a different mailing address to their application, than

their resident address. As long as the mailing address doesn't come back as undeliverable these folks get a ballot. There are problems in our registration process that do need to be addressed. The system proposed in HB3521B is an expensive experiment. It puts our citizens at risk for abuse. It does not solve the real problem 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 will have to correct and/or unregistered themselves. Will it take the dead people off the voter rolls? It will be 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 Electoral Integrity By Hans A. von Spakovsky Pew Upgrading Voter Registration.pdf