Amendment #235 to H4200

Participation in ERIC

Mr. Scaccia of Boston moves to amend the bill by adding the following section:-

“SECTION XXXX    Section 1: Section 47C of Chapter 51 of the Massachusetts General Laws as appearing in the 2012 Official Edition is hereby amended by inserting after the first paragraph the following paragraphs:--

"The registry of motor vehicles, and any other state agency, shall provide data, as deemed necessary by the state secretary, for the purposes of maintaining accurate and complete voter lists. At least every 2 months, the registry of motor vehicles, and any other state agency the secretary designates, shall electronically transmit to the secretary all data as directed by the secretary and relevant to the purposes of voter registration, including, if available, the following record fields: (i) name, current address, mailing address, date of birth, driver’s license number and/or last 4 digits of the social security number, and telephone number; (ii) date, time, and nature of the last change to the information; and (iii) any additional information designated by the state secretary for such purposes and reasonably related to maintaining accurate and complete voter lists.

The secretary shall provide the names and addresses and other data contained in said central registry, as well as information received from the registry of motor vehicles and any other agency received for the purpose of maintaining accurate and complete voting lists, to the Electronic Registration Information Center (“ERIC”) after entering into a binding legal agreement with ERIC specifying the terms and conditions of Massachusetts’s membership in the Center.

The secretary shall implement, if practicable, a centralized system to manage and evaluate data received from ERIC to send required mailings to voters and residents identified as eligible but not registered centrally rather than from the local level. The secretary shall provide information to the registrars in electronic form and in a manner minimizing data management at the local level for any action necessary to be taken by the local election officials.

The information sent to and received from ERIC shall not be a public record."