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This article shouldn’t have been flagged. Here’s a link to the Oregon authentication page for updating voter registration:

https://secure.sos.state.or.us/orestar/vr/showVoterSearch.do...

Others from Oregon confirm what this page implies: you just need name and DOB to mess up a voter’s registration.

In California, to change someone’s voter registration, you also need the last four digits of their SSN and their drivers license number.

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You can’t change anything on the Oregon page with only a name and DOB. You need a drivers license/ID number and that’s just to request a postcard that you have to sign and return. Please stop spreading misinformation.

It took me five minutes to verify this information about Oregon is not factual. You can see someone’s address with name and date of birth, but the site makes it clear if you register with this system that info will not be confidential. You cannot register or change address without an Oregon DMV number. I have not verified additional states. EDIT: To clarify, I only mention registration and change of address because these are the only features I can find that resemble the report in any way. There is no way to request a replacement. You can very very easily test this yourself.

This is not about registration, it is the replacement feature that can cause a ballot that has not yet been successfully validated to be invalidated.

> the replacement feature

does not exist (in Oregon at least)

You obviously didn't even open the link. This isn't an "article." It's a twitter thread of screenshots from 4chan.

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