1) §24.2-418 states that, "Each applicant to register SHALL provide...the information necessary to complete the application to register".

 The Code section goes on to state, that the application shall require THE APPLICANT to provide the following information:  "Full name, gender; date of birth; social security number, if any: whether the applicant is presently a United States citizen; address of residence in the precinct; place of last previous registration to vote;and whether the applicant has ever been adjudicated incapacitated or convicted of a felony, and if so, under what circumstances the applicant's right to vote has been restored."

§24.2-418 continues with the following statement, "...the registration application shall not be pre-populated with information the applicant is required to provide."

By placing the statement in the oath that the applicant meets the requirements, the form is certainly pre-populated with almost half of the information the applicant himself is REQUIRED to provide.

The omission any of the information required of the applicant, by the Code of Virginia, must result in a denial of application. To do otherwise, or pass an agency regulation that not only allows the omission, but requires acceptance of an applicant who has NOT stated that they are a citizen, Not a felon, or NOT incapacitated, or checks a box that they have no social security number is a serious threat to the integrity of the Commonwealth's voter rolls. Not to mention simply illegal.

This application, and the applicable regulation is an attempted end run around the Code. When the Code no longer requires these things, I'll be on board.

2) Standard Agency guidance has also required the denial of any application which does not include any of the information required by law.

3) 99% of the Election offices in the Commonwealth file applications as an 8x5 card. Even the National form is an 8x5 standard.

4) If previous Voter registration information were at the top or bottom, the remaining info would fit on an 8x5 field.