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Oklahoma Administrative Code (Last Updated: March 11, 2021) |
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TITLE 230. State Election Board |
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Chapter 15. Voter Registration |
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Subchapter 9. Receiving and Processing Voter Registration Applications |
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Part 5. PROCESSING VOTER REGISTRATION APPLICATIONS |
SECTION 230:15-9-26. Receiving, processing, and acknowledging electronic address changes from DPS
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- (a) Following close of business each Friday, the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (DPS) transmits a data file to the State Election Board containing information on all driver license address changes submitted in person at motor license agencies and online through the DPS website. The data file contains information only for those persons who did not opt out of simultaneously updating their addresses for voter registration purposes. Upon receipt, the data file shall be processed and, if the file contains matches to currently registered voters, the data shall be imported into MESA.(b) County Election Board personnel shall process DPS address changes received electronically in MESA each week by following the appropriate MESA instructions to access the data, examine the potential matches with registered voters in the county, and to accept those that are valid matches.(1) Changes that may be accepted include changes of a voter's residence address and mailing address in the county.(2) Changes to a voter's name shall be flagged, but shall not be accepted in MESA based only on an electronic submission from DPS.(c) The County Election Board shall acknowledge each electronic address update received from DPS by printing and mailing the appropriate notice. The available notices include the following:(1) A voter identification card is mailed to each voter whose residence address or mailing address is updated by a valid electronic submission from DPS.(2) An insufficient address rejection notice is mailed to each voter whose residence address or mailing address information included in an electronic submission from DPS is insufficient for voter registration purposes. Insufficient addresses may be incomplete or invalid for voter registration. For example, a post office box address submitted as a residence address is invalid as a residence address for voter registration purposes. See 230:15-5-84 (f).(3) A letter is mailed to each voter whose residence address change indicates that the voter has moved to another county in Oklahoma. The letter includes instructions to register again in the voter's new county of residence.(4) A letter is mailed to each voter who appears to have submitted a name change to DPS. The letter provides instructions to the voter to submit a new Oklahoma Voter Registration Application to make the name change for voter registration purposes. See 230:15-5-140 and 230:15-9-20.