[EL] does any state track voter registration by age group?

[John Tanner]

Amen to the inaccurate birth dates.  I've seen many mid-19th century birth
dates and at least one date from the first millennium.  Lists also
include infants and toddlers, according to their birth dates, and then
there are people with zeros for day and month of birth, and others with day
and month transposed.  The  frequency of bad birth dates probably is one of
the reasons that list-matching has proved to be hopelessly inaccurate.  And
all the more reason to make registration automatic rather than optional at
NVRA agencies, were data entry errors are less common - although I recall
one of the Gabor sisters getting in trouble because her driver's license
birth date was 20 years after her actual birth date.

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Lorraine Minnite <lminnite at gmail.com>wrote:

>  It's my experience that raw lists from state election agencies have a
> good deal of missing or inaccurate data in the birth date field.  I could
> be wrong about this, but I also think I've come across states that do not
> publicly disclose birth date on their voter registration files (Michigan?).
>
> Lori Minnite
>
> On 3/26/13 3:20 PM, Doug Hess wrote:
>
>
>  If you have an in with any of the vendors that buy registration lists or
> if the state of interest makes the list available for low cost (some
> don't), I assume the birth date is part of what the state releases. No? I
> don't know if any state would accept a registration application with no
> birth date filled in. So, you'd have to run the data yourself....or maybe
> some states have their own voter registration analysis by age, or could be
> prodded to do one (depending on how they are set up, it should be simple
> for them to do it...but you'd have to get their interest).
>
>  -Doug
>
>  ----
> Subject: [EL] does any state track voter registration by age group?
>   I hope someone knows if there is any state that keeps data on the
> number of registered voters by age group.
>
> Richard Winger
> 415-922-9779
> PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
>
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