R 168.252 Reliable information.

Rule 2. (1) Whether information is reliable information that a voter has moved is considered on an individual, case-by-case basis. (2) The following sources of information are examples of reliable information: (a) A voter’s failure to vote for 20 years or more, or for a timeframe as provided in the act. (b) United States Postal Service returned election mail. (c) A voter appears on a United States Postal Service national change of address list and the entry on the list is checked against the voter record and they match. (d) During a house-to-house canvass, the clerk speaks to an individual who lives at the voter’s registration address, and the individual informs the clerk that a voter has permanently moved. (e) The voter surrendered their driver license from this state to a different state. (f) Utility bills with an address or name that is different than the voter’s registration name and address, if accompanied by additional information that shows that the voter has moved. (g) City income tax records with an address that is different than the voter’s registration address. (h) A statement or communication indicating a permanent change of address made by a voter that does not include the voter’s signature. (3) The following sources of information are not on their own reliable sources of information sufficient to trigger sending either a confirmation or cancellation notice to a registered individual, but can be considered in combination with other information: (a) Information pulled from online databases that list individual names and dates of birth. (b) Word-of-mouth claims about a registered individual that are not based on personal knowledge of the individual making the claim, including attempted challenges to voter registration that fail to meet the requirement of personal knowledge. (4) A clerk is not obligated to begin an investigation of an individual’s registration status after receiving information from the sources identified in subrule (3) of this rule. (5) If a clerk chooses to investigate an individual’s registration status based on information from the sources identified in subrule (3) of this rule, the clerk shall independently verify the information from a source listed in subrule (3) of this rule with reliable information before sending a confirmation or cancellation notice to a registered individual.