Voter registration website (kansas secretary of state)

Jason Koebler filed this request with the kansas secretary of state of Kansas.
Multi Request Voter registration website
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From: Jason Koebler


To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the The Kansas 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: kansas secretary of state

Attached is our initial response.

Clay

Clayton Barker
Deputy General Counsel, Secretary of State
Clay.barker2@ks.gov<mailto:Clay.barker2@ks.gov>
785-296-3483

From: kansas secretary of state

Clayton Barker
Deputy General Counsel, Secretary of State
Clay.barker2@ks.gov<mailto:Clay.barker2@ks.gov>
785-296-3483

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