The Act directs the DFW to provide the SOS with certain data on persons who may qualify to vote in this state.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to provide the Secretary of State with electronic records containing the legal name, age, residence and citizenship information and electronic signature of each person who may qualify as an elector as prescribed by the secretary by rule. Directs the secretary to register as an elector each nonregistered person whose electronic records the secretary receives from the State Department of Fish and Wildlife and who is qualified to vote. Becomes operative on June 1, 2027.
This bill incorporates another agency to register voters. The Department of Fish and Wildlife probably deals with the most out-of-state applicants of any department making it subject to faulty registrations. Visitors may use friends addresses to get in-state rates for fishing and hunting tags, and to have that qualify them to auto voter registration is being careless. We are already dealing with thousands of faulty registrations of illegals. This bill will add more reason for voters to not trust our voting process.
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