UNDERSTANDING THE FLAWED DATA METHODOLOGIES UNDERLYING MASS VOTER CHALLENGES - SEPTEMBER 2024

⁹ Notably, a planning document obtained by investigative journalists claims that EagleAI uses multiple public government datasets to identify in-state, out-of-state, and foreign moves, including National Change of Address (NCOA) data.¹º The NCOA database is a national file of individuals who have submitted a change of address request to the United States Postal Service (USPS).¹¹ According to the p. [...] Specifically, once a voter’s registration is matched to an NCOA request, that registration can be removed only if the voter has not responded to a mail notice sent by the registrar and has not voted or appeared to vote in two federal general elections.²⁵ Otherwise, the NVRA only allows NCOA data to update a voter’s registration to their new address, not remove them.²⁶ Programs which overly rely on. [...] A change of address record was found, but the new address Indeed, when an individual with access to NCOA, could not be converted to a such as a postal worker, checks a name or deliverable address.  address against the NCOA dataset, they receive a code that either indicates a “COA Match” or 7. [...] A change of address record indicates that the record has a likely match in was found, but the change of the database.³² USPS explains that there are address record had a eight different reasons why an address might secondary number, while the match against the NCOA database: input address did not.³³ 27. [...] Black, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held that the New York City Board of Elections violated the Equal Protection Clause when it refused to allow homeless individuals to register to vote because they did not have fixed addresses.⁵² Similarly, in a class action involving a group of students residing in dormitories, the United States Court of Appeals for the.