Report Title:
Voter Registration; Social Security Number
Description:
Repeals the provision requiring an applicant's social security number from voter registration application forms.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
850 |
TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO VOTER REGISTRATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 11-15, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:
1. By amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) Any person qualified to and desiring to register as a voter in any county shall make and subscribe to an application in the form of an affidavit.
The affidavit shall contain the following information:
(1) Name;
[(2) Social security number;
(3)] (2) Date of birth;
[(4)] (3) Residence, including mailing address;
[(5)] (4) That the residence stated in the affidavit is not simply because of the person's presence in the State but that the residence was acquired with the intent to make Hawaii the person's legal residence with all the accompanying obligations therein;
[(6)] (5) That the person is a citizen."
2. By amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
"(c) The applicant shall swear to the truth of the allegations by self-subscribing oath in the affidavit on application for voter registration or other form prescribed by the chief election officer. Unless contested by a qualified voter, the clerk may accept, as prima facie evidence, the allegation of the applicant in information required in the affidavit in subsection [(a)(5),] (a)(4), and the allegation of the applicant that the applicant is Hawaiian required in subsection (b). In any other case where the clerk shall so desire or believe the same to be expedient, the clerk may demand that the applicant furnish substantiating evidence to the allegations of the applicant's application."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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