Help America Vote Act (HAVA)

OMB No. 0960-0706 (HAVA)

Sample Collection Screens

Below are HAVA submission screens for several state MVAs. Screen shots vary slightly from State to State, although the information required is standardized when it goes from AAMVA to SSA.

Michigan

Here is a screen shot of the application used by the Michigan voting jurisdictions to enter the data.  The 4 digit SSN field is grayed out, but is opened on specific transactions.

 

Vermont

Have to have a name, DOB and last four of SSN.

                                                                      

                                 HAVA INQUIRY SCREEN                  

                                                                      

  STATE  NAME                                                          

   VT    SMITH,JOHN________________________                          

                                                                      

                                                                      

  DATE OF BIRTH    SOC. SEC. #                                        

     02 12 1997         1234                                          

                                 

Missouri

                         HAVA VERIFICATION CHECK          

                                                          

                                                          

                                                          

   LAST 4 OF SSN                                          

       LAST NAME                                          

      FIRST NAME                                          

     MIDDLE NAME                                          

     SUFFIX NAME                                          

             DOB                                          

                                                          

                                                           

                         HAVA VERIFICATION RESPONSE       

                                                          

   RESPONSE CODE                                          

Arizona

Arizona's Secretary of State office accepts voter registrations from the fifteen Arizona counties and passes any new entries (Full Name, SSN last 4 digits and DOB) through to us here at the Motor Vehicle Division in a daily batch process. We then check to see if the full SSN search has already been verified on our Driver License Data Base and, if so, return the entry with a verified status. If the entry is not found on the MVD data base, or, the SSN verification has not been completed, we initiate the HAVV inquiry. We don't have access to the entry screens used by the Secretary of State but they accept:

Full Name

DOB

SSN (Last 4)

Address

Political Party affiliation

And, assign a unique voter ID to each registrant.

Texas

When a new Voter application is entered into the system (via the "eRegistry" GUI or through the import process) it goes through a process called "live check".

The portion of the "live check" that makes the call to the Department of Public Safety (DPS) which in turn makes a call to the Social Security Agency (SSA) requires the following pieces of information:

- Last Name

- First Name

- Last 4 Digits of the SSN

- Date of Birth

We will basically receive a "pass" or "no pass" status back. If it passes the voter application is approved. If it doesn't pass, the County's voter registrar has several options (1. reject the application, 2. send the applicant a notice, 3. approve the application, but blank out the SSN and mark/flag the voter application so that the voter would be required to show proper identification the first time the voter votes).

Note: Not all voter applications are sent to SSA, if they contain a Driver's License, then they've already been checked by DPS as to their identity and are not required to go through the SSA process. Also, if the voter application does not have an SSN then it would not need to go to SSA.

New Hampshire