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Committee Will Meet on 4-Year Purge and Retroactive HAVA Checks

Notice of Suspension of Registration Postcards To Be Mailed February 20 On February 20, 2009, approximately 313,205 voters, who were identified in the Statewide Voter Registration System as not voting in the past 4 years, will be mailed Notice of Suspension of Registration postcards by the Government Accountability Board (G.A.B.). The voter will be given 30-days, or until March 23, to respond and continue their registration. Attached to the Notice of Suspension is a tear-off, returnable Application for Continuation of

G.A.B. Establishes Ad Hoc SVRS Study Team to Improve the System Since the G.A.B.’s Elections Division assumed responsibility for Statewide Voter Registration System (SVRS) maintenance at the end of February 2008, the system has been brought into compliance with the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) and improved in other areas.

Elections Division Prepares Legislative Agenda for 2009-2010 Session in Madison The Government Accountability Board has endorsed a 2009-10 legislative agenda for the Wisconsin Elections Division and the list is being prepared for presentation to legislators and oversight committees. The agenda includes both major policy issues and technical clarifications. While comments from local election officials helped shape the draft agenda, the Elections Division invites more suggestions from clerks as the process moves to the Capitol.

G.A.B. Director Makes Case for Elections Budget to Joint Finance Committee G.A.B. Director Kevin Kennedy testified on March 17 to the Wisconsin Joint Legislative Committee on Finance about the agency’s budget for 2009-11. Included in his plea to maintain proper agency funding was information about the G.A.B.’s budget proposals for funding to support elections administration in the state, and the potential damage that further cuts to resources and/or staff, which would hamper capacity to provide assistance and services to municipalities.

Four-Year Voter Record Maintenance Ends; ‘Inactivated’ Lists Coming to Clerks The Elections Division has concluded the Four-Year Voter Record Maintenance process. By May 1, local election officials in Wisconsin should receive lists of voters whose records were inactivated in the Statewide Voter Registration System (SVRS) as a result of the process. The process will improve voter data quality across