Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Electronic Transmission of Voter Applications: HB1007

Readers may notice a pattern about these legislative posts. I'm not finding "good" or "bad" Delegates as I read a batch of bills that were all sponsored by the same person. Repeatedly, I'm finding a "good" bill and a "bad" bill, sponsored by the same person, back to back. This is definitely the case with Delegate Ramadan's proposed Virginia House Bill #1007:

http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+HB1007

If enacted, this bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to transmit official identity information about prospective voters to the registrar's office "electronically." And I don't see anything in there stipulating that the D.M.V. and the registrar's office shall be provided with special state-government-only computers that can't connect to the regular Internet. This is very, very bad.

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