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Connecticut Seeks To Improve Security Of Voter Information

Richard Drew
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AP

Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill wants to make some information in the state’s electronic voter database harder for the public to access, information like full birth dates and addresses.

Merrill says it will make the database more secure and protect voters from potential crimes like identity theft and domestic violence.

“Our list contains name, address and full birth date. With just those three pieces of information, someone would be able to steal your identity.”

Merrill says she got worried about public access to the database after the White House’s controversial voter fraud commission called asking for information.

Connecticut, along with fourteen other states, never gave voter information to the commission. President Trump disbanded the commission in January.

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Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He fell in love with sound-rich radio storytelling while working as an assistant reporter at KBIA public radio in Columbia, Missouri. Before coming back to radio, he worked in digital journalism as the editor of Newtown Patch. As a freelance reporter, his work for WSHU aired nationally on NPR. Davis is a proud graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism; he started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.

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