Voter registration website (Idaho Secretary of State)

Jason Koebler filed this request with the Idaho Secretary of State of Idaho.
Multi Request Voter registration website
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Rejected

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From: Jason Koebler


To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Idaho Public 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: Idaho Secretary of State

With regards to your public record request, information pertaining to the design of our online voter registration system is a matter of critical infrastructure security and not available for public review. Neither are failsafe, disaster recovery and backup plans or cybersecurity test reports.

Thank you,

Chad

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CHAD HOUCK
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