Commentary: Thanks to funding by the Doña Ana County Clerk’s Office and the Bernalillo County Clerk’s Office, voter information statewide is now exponentially more secure than ever before.
Employees of county clerks’ offices in each of New Mexico’s 33 counties now require formal access permissions to view sensitive voter information – including dates of birth and Social Security numbers – from the New Mexico Secretary of State’s website.
“The Secretary of State’s Office did not have the funds required to implement this security enhancement, so I authorized funding for half of the purchase, and my colleague in Bernalillo County – Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver – authorized funding from her budget for the other half,” said Doña Ana County Clerk Lynn Ellins. “With this final step in place, the risk of unlawful access to protected personal data has been reduced as close to zero as possible.”
In other news related to the Clerk’s Office, the Doña Ana County Bureau of Elections has facilitated 2,368 new voter registrations within Doña Ana County since May 1.