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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is absolutely shameful and Cameron Sasnett should be fired.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2018/01/fairfax-co-registrar-to-deny-voter-registrations-over-concerns-with-state-system/[/quote]

Why is it shameful? I read the article. There is an issue with the system. I, for one, do not want issues with voter registration systems to be ignored. They are going to reject the recent requests, send the applicants letters notifying them, and including a new application form. All of that is reasonable and what we should expect if there was an issue.

Shameful? What?[/quote]

Cortes's expertise vs. Sasnett's I would say Cortes wins.

[quote]“I’d say that’s exceptionally troubling if a registrar is going to refuse to register or update registration for people who are validly registered, have done everything they’re required to do under law, just because he is not a fan of the process. That could certainly lead to disenfranchisement of eligible voters in Virginia, and that’s something that we definitely don’t want,” Virginia Department of Elections Commissioner Edgardo Cortes responded in an interview.

“I don’t think there is a problem [with the system],” Cortes said.

To him, the only issue has been that the registrars did not understand the design of certain pieces of the electronic state voter registration system.

“There is a print function, and I think where we ran into issues here is that registrars were taking an electronic process that was supposed to make things more efficient and then actually converting it into a paper-based process on the back end,” Cortes said.

“When that was brought to our attention that that’s how folks were taking this electronic process and converting it to an inefficient paper-based process, our team went in and made some changes to how the information’s displayed if you choose to print it out to make it clear what the person has done at the DMV,” Cortes added in an interview this week.

He made the same arguments in a Nov. 15 email obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request that tried to quell concerns of the state’s registrars shortly after the printable forms were changed. “The changes that were made … were simply to have the printable version more clearly identify what the voter has or has not provided,” he wrote then.[/quote]

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