Disclosure of Personal Information

Disclosure of Personal Information. State law provides that copies of statewide, district, legislative, county or municipal voter registration files, excluding social security numbers, telephone numbers and date of birth and age information, shall be provided to any person in accordance with the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983 at a cost not to exceed the actual cost of production. The Secretary of State’s Office also adheres to the Mississippi Public Records Act (See Miss. Code Ann. § 25-61-1 et seq.). Based on state law, the following information will not be provided in response to public requests in order to prevent any kind of abuse of such information and/or identity theft: A. Voter number assigned by the county; B. Social Security Number; C. Date of Birth; D. Driver’s license number; E. Telephone number, facsimile number or E.Mail address information; F. Custom fields; G. Last jury date; and H. Registration Source. Any voter registration data provided shall not be used for the purpose of mailing or delivering any solicitation for money, services, or anything of value. This policy is used to protect voters from unwanted commercial solicitations. Cost: $100 set-up fee for all electronic data SEMS requests plus additional costs as listed below. Pre-payment of such cost is required prior to production of the requested information. Additional Costs (does not include set-up fee): A. County, county district, municipal or municipal district office: $125 B. State legislative district, Judicial district (Chancery or Circuit Court, District Attorney), or comparable office involving more than one county that does not fall into the next tier: $250 C. Congressional district, Supreme Court district, Court of Appeals district: $500 D. Statewide list: $1,000 Proposed Voter File Information to be provided upon written request in accordance with Mississippi law. A comma separated value (CSV) text file format will include data elements listed below, in the order these columns will be placed in the file. If a voter record does not have a value for a specific data element, the column will be empty. Sr Num Column Name Column Header Description First Name First Name First name of the voter Middle Name Middle Name Middle name of the voter Last Name Last Name Last name of the voter Suffix Suffix Suffix of the voter Residence Address Residence Address Residence address of the voter. For standard of non-standard addresses, this will be a String- concatenated value Residence City Residence City City of the voter’s residence address Residence State Residence State Residence State of the voter’s residence address (always “MS”) Residence Zip Residence Zip Zip (and Zip Plus where available) of voter’s residence address Residence County County of Residence County that the voter record belongs to Mailing Address Mailing Address Mailing address of the voter Mailing City Mailing City City of the voter’s mailing address Mailing State Mailing State State of the voter mailing address Mailing Zip Mailing Zip Zip (and Zip Plus where available) of voter’s mailing address Registration Date Registration Date Date of Registration of the voter record in mm/dd/yyyy format Voter Status Voter Status Status of the voter (i.e., Active, Inactive, Pending, or Purged) Last Vote Date Last Vote Date Date last voted of the voter in mm/dd/yyyy format Selected Districts District type code The number of these columns will depend on the number of districts selected for output. Each of these columns will have the district type code (example SEN for Senate) in the header and the district code (like 45, 4, etc.) in the voter record row. Voting Dates with Party Code Vote Date This section will have the Voting History (dates of the elections they voted in) for the voter, in descending order (latest voted date first). If the election date is for a primary election, the party code will be attached to the voted date in parentheses (example 06/06/2006 (DEM)). Each voter may have a different number of such columns depending upon the number of time they had voted during the specified date range.