Assembly Bill Would Give Credit Reporting Companies Access To Voter Addresses

[Ayatollahgondola]

this is a very, very bad idea. The county elections agencies will be allowed to contract (using your tax money) with Consumer credit reporting companies in the democrats ever expanding, interminable hunt for liberal voters. This bill allows the county registrars to partner up with a company like Experian, or it's agents, and send the addresses of state voters to them for verification when the registrar finds that those voters haven't voted in x amount of elections. Not only is this a huge waste of money, which we don't have, but giving a company like experian access to voter addresses and telling them that they can't use it for debt collection is a foolish and ridiculous pipe dream that the state will not enforce, and probably can't prove misuse ever anyway. This is a huge gift to credit reporting companies on two ends: They get taxpayer money to obtain voter addresses they may not have previously had already. the legislator here thinks it's a big savings because they supposedly won't spend as much of your money trying to track down voters who have moved, given up on the electoral system, or are trying to hide from creditors and don't want any tracks left behind.

2227. (a) In lieu of mailing a residency confirmation postcard,
as prescribed in subdivision (a) of Section 2220, the county
elections official may contract with a consumer credit reporting
agency or its licensees to obtain use of change-of-address data in
accordance with this section.
(b) If the county elections official contracts with a consumer
credit reporting agency or its licensees pursuant to subdivision (a),
all of the following shall occur:
(1) For each registered voter in the county, the county elections
official shall initiate a search for change-of-address data with the
consumer credit reporting agency or its licensees by providing the
name and residence address of each registered voter in the county to
the consumer credit reporting agency or its licensees.
(2) The consumer credit reporting agency or its licensees shall
search their databases for each name and address provided by the
county elections official and shall report to the county elections
official any information indicating that the registered voter changed
his or her residence address.
(c) (1) Notwithstanding Section 2194 of this code or Section
6254.4 of the Government Code, and except as provided in paragraph
(2), a county elections official may disclose a registered voter's
name and residence address to a consumer credit reporting agency or
its licensees pursuant to, and in accordance with, this section.
(2) A county elections official shall not disclose to a consumer
credit reporting agency or its licensees the name and residence
address of a registered voter if that information is deemed
confidential pursuant to Section 2166, 2166.5, or 2166.7 of this
code, or Chapter 3.1 (commencing with Section 6205) of Division 7 of
Title 1 of the Government Code.
(d) A consumer credit reporting agency or its licensees shall use
the information provided by a county elections official only pursuant
to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b), and shall not retain any
information received from the county elections official pursuant to
this section.