Researcher: MHF Page 1 4/14/22
OLR Bill Analysis
sSB 470
AN ACT CONCERNING CERTAIN VOTER REGISTRATION
INFORMATION.
SUMMARY
Under current law, a person’s driver’s license, identity card, and
Social Security numbers, and other unique identifiers (e.g., voter
registration numbers) on a voter registration record, are confidential
and prohibited from disclosure. Additionally, any unique identifier
added to a record to comply with the federal Help America Vote Act of
2002 (HAVA) is protected. Under HAVA, registered voters must be
assigned a numerical identifier for database identification (52 U.S.C. §
21083(a)(1)(A)).
This bill removes a person’s voter registration number and any other
HAVA-required identifiers from the list of protected information. In
practice, these identifiers are used to connect all parts of the voter’s
information in a voter registration database, such as a name, address,
and party affiliation. Independent of the identifiers used in the database,
they provide no identifying information about a voter.
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
COMMITTEE ACTION
Government Administration and Elections Committee
Joint Favorable Substitute
Yea 19 Nay 0 (03/29/2022)