New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle V - State Board of Elections › Part 6217 - New York State Database Regulations › Section 6217.6 - Voter identification verification

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) The county board shall promptly, and in
				any event, not later than 21 days after receipt by it of the voter registration
				application, verify the identity of the applicant who has not previously had
				his or her identification verified. The voter's registration and enrollment
				shall be complete upon receipt of the application by the appropriate county
				board. The failure of a county board to verify an applicant's identity shall
				not be the basis for the rejection of a voter's application; provided, however,
				that such verification failure shall be the basis for requiring county board to
				take the additional verification steps provided by the Election Law, section
				5-210 and this Part.
(b) In order to do so, the county board shall
				utilize the information provided on the application and shall attempt to verify
				such information through NYSVoter with the information provided by the New York
				State Department of Motor Vehicles, or the United States Social Security
				Administration and any other lawfully available information source. The county
				board shall do so by transmitting such information to NYSVoter. The county
				board shall deem as verified for the purposes of this section an application
				received from the Department of Motor Vehicles processed simultaneously and
				integrated with an application for a motor vehicle driver's license, a driver's
				license renewal or an identification card if such card is issued by the
				Department of Motor Vehicles in its normal course of business, pursuant to
				section 5-212  of the Election Law.
(c) NYSVoter shall compare the New York State
				Department of Motor Vehicles driver license or non-driver number, name, and
				date of birth of the voter with the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles
				records for verification of the voter's identification as required by statute.
				The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles shall report back to NYSVoter.
				Based upon this report, the County Board shall determine if they have
				sufficient information to verify the voter's identity, or whether additional
				information is required to verify the voter's identity.
(d) If necessary to verify a voter's
				identity, NYSVoter shall compare the last four digits of the voter's social
				security number, name and date of birth, through the New York State Department
				of Motor Vehicles with the United States Social Security Administration records
				for verification of the voter's identification as required by statute. The
				United States Social Security Administration through the New York State
				Department of Motor Vehicles shall report back to NYSVoter. Based upon this
				report, the county board shall determine if they have sufficient information to
				verify the voter's identity, or whether additional information is required to
				verify the voter's identity.
(e) If
				the county board is unable to verify the identity of the applicant within 21
				days of the receipt of the application, it shall immediately take steps to
				confirm that the information provided by the applicant was accurately utilized
				by such county board, was accurately verified with other information sources
				and that no data entry error, or other similar type of error,
				occurred.
(f) Following completion
				of the preceding steps, the county board shall mail:
(1) a notice of its approval; or
(2) a notice of its approval which includes
				an indication that such board has not yet been able to verify the identity of
				the applicant and a request for more information so that such verification may
				be completed; or
(3) a notice of
				its rejection of the application to the applicant in a form approved by the
				State Board.