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House Bill 0291




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                 HM 291

        By Representative Feeney






  1                          House Memorial

  2         A memorial to the Congress of the United

  3         States, urging Congress to enact amendments to

  4         the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

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  6         WHEREAS, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993,

  7  while very successful in registering new voters, has opened

  8  the elections process to certain abuses that threaten its

  9  integrity, and

10         WHEREAS, because the act does not require that a person

11  registering to vote provide some form of identification or

12  have his or her signature attested to by an appropriate

13  witness, widespread voter registration fraud is not only

14  possible but probable and prosecution of fraudulent

15  registrants virtually impossible, especially since a person

16  may register by mail and vote absentee without ever having

17  been seen by another person, and

18         WHEREAS, because the act also does not require that a

19  person registering to vote provide his or her social security

20  number, it is very difficult to identify registrations that

21  are duplicates or potentially fraudulent, and

22         WHEREAS, it is imperative that the integrity of the

23  elections process in this country be preserved, not only for

24  our nation but also for other nations around the world that

25  look to our elections process as the example to be followed,

26  NOW, THEREFORE,

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28  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                 HM 291

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  1         That the Congress of the United States is requested to

  2  amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require

  3  that:

  4         1.  Every person registering to vote provide

  5  appropriate identification or, in the case of a mail-in form,

  6  provide either a notarized application photograph of himself

  7  or herself for identification purposes or a notarized copy of

  8  any authorized form of identification otherwise required to

  9  register.

10         2.  All voter registration applications be witnessed by

11  the person who is registering the applicant or, in the case of

12  a mail-in form, by any other registered voter of the

13  applicable state or other appropriate witness.

14         3.  All newly registering voters list their social

15  security numbers on their applications, with proviso that such

16  numbers will remain confidential and exempt from access by the

17  public and will be used by elections officials only to better

18  maintain the voter rolls.

19         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be

20  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the

21  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the

22  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of

23  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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