Voter registration website (Colorado Secretary Of State - Elections Division)
| Multi Request | Voter registration website |
| Submitted | Oct. 13, 2020 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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Communications
From: Jason Koebler
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Colorado Open Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
A series of voter registration website outages have made national news in recent weeks:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/935em3/severed-internet-cable-breaks-virginia-voter-registration-portal-on-deadline-day
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/06/920774701/florida-governor-extends-deadline-after-voter-registration-site-crashes
Therefore, I request the following information:
- Contracts, plans, RFPs, and underlying information about the design of online voter registration systems
- Presentations and emails regarding these systems
- Any disaster recovery / backup plans / failsafes for voter registration databases and registration websites or emails/plans/RFPs/presentations regarding this
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity contracts, plans, RFPs, presentations for voter registration websites and databases
- Any cybersecurity audits/penetration test reports / RFPs and contracts regarding online voter registration systems
Please search from Jan 1, 2018 until the day this request is processed.
These documents will be used for reporting on Motherboard, VICE Media's science and tech website (www.motherboard.vice.com)
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 3 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Jason Koebler
From: Colorado Secretary Of State - Elections Division
Thank you for contacting our office. Please check your registration online at www.GoVoteColorado.gov to ensure it is up to date. You can also check your ballot status and find your closest drop box.
Colorado voters can now sign up for BallotTrax - a system that will allow you to track your ballot from sent to accepted. You can go to https://colorado.ballottrax.net to sign up!
If you’re a Denver voter, go to https://ballottrace.org/home to update your ballot tracking preferences.
We’ll respond to your inquiry as quickly as possible.
Thank you.
From: Colorado Secretary Of State - Elections Division
Good morning Mr. Koebler,
We are searching for your requested documents, however we need to take the extension allowed in section 24-72-203 of the Colorado Revised Statutes. I will update you once the searches are complete on or before October 29th, 2020.
Sincerely,
Kerry Colburn
Legal and Policy Analyst | Department of State
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From: Colorado Secretary Of State - Elections Division
Good morning Mr. Koebler,
We completed the email search and retrieved an enormous number of documents. As provided in our rules related to CORA and allowed under section 24-72-205(6), C.R.S., we charge a fee of $30 per hour after the first hour of staff time required to search for, retrieve, and review the responsive documents. 8 C.C.R. 1505-12 4.3. We exceeded the initial one hour of time. In accordance with our rules, we will require you to pay a deposit equal to the estimated fees before beginning our review of the documents. 8 C.C.R. 1505-12 4.4. Your communications request alone resulted in 20.9 GB of data. We estimate that completing your request will take 69,736 hours of time and therefore require a deposit of $2,092,069 to proceed. Please narrowly tailor your request so that we may reasonably assist you with your document search.
Sincerely,
Kerry Colburn
Legal and Policy Analyst | Department of State
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