Subject: Re: [EL] data on states, HAVA requirements, and the Social Security Administration
From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Date: 5/12/2011, 8:10 AM
To: Doug Hess
CC: election-law <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Doug Hess <douglasrhess@gmail.com> wrote:
A friend in the Senate passed along to me the link below showing
interactions between the HAVA 4-digit verification requirments, state
officials, and the Social Security Administration. I'm not sure if
people have seen it before or how long it has been up, but the data
shows a lot of state-by-state variation.

http://www.ssa.gov/open/havv/

This is pretty fascinating... the ratio of matches/non-matches is
pretty well-behaved, except for a few states, most notably California,
which has a 10% match ratio!  I wonder why this is... it could be that
some canonicalization that the CA DMV does to the data results in
fewer matches. best, Joe

-- Joseph Lorenzo Hall ACCURATE Postdoctoral Research Associate UC Berkeley School of Information Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy http://josephhall.org/ _______________________________________________ election-law mailing list election-law@mailman.lls.edu http://mailman.lls.edu/mailman/listinfo/election-law