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CITY OF FAIRFAX ELECTORAL BOARD

July 1, 2015

COMMENTS CONCERNING PROPOSED

VIRGINIA VOTER REGISTRATION APPLICATION (VA-NVRA-1 07/15)

AND

REVISIONS TO VOTER REGISTRATION APPLICATION REGULATIONS (1 VAC 20-40-70)

July 1, 2015

We offer a number of comments and concerns about the referenced proposals.

The first and foremost is about the regulation section B. 8, 11 ,12 taken together which require that a signed but otherwise deficient application be accepted by the General Registrar. A major concern here is that the “AFFIRMATION” asks for a signature indicating that the applicant “meet Virginia’s requirements for U.S. citizenship…”  Requirements for U.S. citizenship are federal requirements.

Next we find that the Registration Application form begins with the statement “Starred (*) items are required.  If you do not complete all of the items that are marked with *, your application may be denied.”  However 1 VAV 20-40-70 requires the General Registrar to accept applications on which the starred (*) items are left blank.  The Commonwealth requires but also does not require the requisite information???

B. 4. Allows an application to be submitted but not dated.  The General Registrars are thus prevented from assessing the order in which applications are completed and submitted.

And 1 VAC 20-40-70 B. 7, 14 and 16 taken together require that and applicant with a disability must so indicate or not and must have a witness to their mark or not!

We further point out that the instructions to the voter VA-NVRA-1 07/15 in Address Requirements are quite specific as to Box 2 yet B. 3.e General Registrar to ignore the requirement.

We ask that these problems be dealt with prior to the Department and the State Board proceeding with these propsals.

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