Voter registration website (Secretary of State)
| Multi Request | Voter registration website |
| Submitted | Oct. 13, 2020 |
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Communications
From: Jason Koebler
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the The Missouri Sunshine Law, 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: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following The Missouri Sunshine Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on Oct. 13, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Secretary of State
Dear Mr. Koebler,
I am in receipt of your October 13, 2020, email requesting: 1) Contracts, plans, RFP's and underlying information about the design of our on-line voter registration system; 2) Presentations and emails regarding our voter registration system; 3) Disaster recovery/back-up plans/failsafe for our voter registration data base and registration website; 4) Disaster recovery and business continuity contracts, plans, RFP's and presentations for our voter registration system and database; and 5) Cybersecurity audits/penetration test reports/RFP's and contracts regarding our on-line voter registration database.
Attached are all the contracts and RFP's we have related to our voter registration system and database. Any information related to design, operation, recovery plans, and cybersecurity for our system would be closed records under Section 610.021(10), (14), (18), (19), (20) and (21).
Sincerely,
Frank Jung
General Counsel
Missouri Secretary of State
