Let me begin by saying the size of the application will be a  problem!  The size of the form we have used for the past 27 years I have been in this office, has always remained the same size even with design changes.  A New filing systems will be very costly at a time our county has just purchased new voting equipment. 

If it is Elect's intent that all Voter Registration offices will be scanning application, therefore filing will not be a problem; first of all we do not have that ability and secondly having had issues with VERIS at very crucial times, I would never feel comfortable not having hard copies of Alphas to access when necessary!

I find the instruction to the applicant on the new form confusing  (i.e. signature instructions) nor do the instructions to the applicant in anyway match the proposed way in which we are to process the application!

 If we are not going to require a person to mark that they are a citizen or not, give us a SS#, tell us whether they have been convicted of a felony or have been adjudicated,  we will end up with a very large amount of non-citizen, adjudicated and felons on our Voter Registration rolls, because we are assuming they read the "Affirmation" before they signed.  The reason I say this is in watching people fill out applications over the years, once we stopped having to say the "Oath" to folks before they signed, very few ever  read the "Statement or the Affirmation" they just sign.

Moving the previous up into the body of the application will require us to make copies of the whole application, redacting SS# and DOB prior to mailing to other states.  Another problem I have with sending the entire application is that we will be giving other agencies current residential information on our voters who will be unaware we are doing so.  All the loosing state needs is a voter's prior residential information.

What we have been using has worked why is there a need to redesign the form or the way we process the applications.  If colored ink is an issue, black and white is just fine, that is how most of our DMV and mail in applications come to us now.