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<keyword id="46210" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vehicle">Vehicle</keyword> registrations declined on both sequential and year-on-year (YoY) basis in <keyword id="47317" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="February">February</keyword> 2021. On Tuesday, the data released by the <keyword id="1692051" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Federation-of-Automobile-Dealers-Associations">Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations</keyword> (FADA) showed that vehicle <keyword id="6357068" type="DEFINITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Registration">registration</keyword> declined by 13.43 per cent to around 14.99 lakh in February 2021, compared to over 17.31 lakh units reported for the corresponding period of last year. Similarly, the registration count declined on a sequential basis to around 14.99 lakh in February from over 15.92 lakh in January 2021. However, in February 2021, registration of personal vehicles grew by 10.59 per cent on a YoY basis to 254,058 units. Similarly, tractor registration rose 18.89 per cent on a YoY basis in February to 61,351 units. In contrast, two-wheeler registration fell by 16.08 per cent to over 10.91 lakh units. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/gold-prices-are-falling-and-the-worlds-biggest-market-for-the-yellow-metal-is-hoping-for-more-shoppers/articleshow/81406658.cms">Gold prices are falling and the world’s biggest market for the yellow metal is hoping for more shoppers</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/craftsman-automation-has-fixed-a-price-band-of-14881490-a-share-for-its-150-crore-ipo/articleshow/81408729.cms">Auto components maker Craftsman Automation’s ₹150 crore IPO to hit the capital markets next week — price band fixed at ₹1,488–1,490</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/india-is-using-the-quad-alliance-to-get-help-from-the-us-japan-and-australia-to-match-chinas-covid-19-vaccine-push/articleshow/81408044.cms">India is asking the QUAD for money to boost vaccine production and counter China’s moves on the global stage</a>

Vehicle registrations fell 13.43% in February, says FADA

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="23461" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Virginia">Virginia</keyword> extended voter registration until midnight on October 15 after the online portal went offline on Tuesday. </li><li>Virginia's voter registration system went down due to an accidentally cut fiber cable on October 13, the deadline to register to vote online. </li><li>State officials announced on Tuesday morning that an accidentally cut fiber optic cable near the capital city of Richmond brought down several government networks, including the registration portal. </li><li>Similarly in 2016, the state's registration portal malfunctioned and crashed the day before the online registration deadline, leading the state to extend the deadline to register to vote online. </li></ul>A judge extended Virginia's voter registration until midnight on October 15 after a technical malfunction caused the voter registration portal to go offline on October 13, the deadline to register to vote. On Tuesday, the commonwealth's set deadline to register to vote, Virginia's online voter registration system went down because of a cut fiber optic cable near the commonwealth's capital of Richmond."A fiber cut near Rt. 10 in Chester near the Commonwealth Enterprise Solutions Center (CESC) is impacting data circuits and virtual private network (VPN) connectivity for multiple Commonwealth agencies," Virginia's Information Technology Agency announced on Tuesday, <a href="https://twitter.com/VITAagency/status/1316000866244218882">around 9 a.m. ET. on Twitter. </a>The deadline to register to vote online, by mail, or in-person in Virginia was set to be Tuesday, October 13. "This morning we were alerted by VITA that a fiber cut near the Commonwealth Enterprise Solutions Center was impacting data circuits and VPN connectivity for multiple agencies. This has affected the citizen portal along w/ registrar's offices," <a href="https://twitter.com/vaELECT/status/1316012911031017482">the Virginia Department of Elections tweeted shortly before 10 a.m on Tuesday</a>, adding that "technicians are on site and working to repair; updates will be provided as work progresses."After repairs to the cable on the scene, the system went back online in the afternoon at about 3:30 p.m., <a href="https://twitter.com/kevincollier/status/1316131706299088901">NBC News' Kevin Collier reported. </a>Early in-person <keyword id="43546" type="EVENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Voting">voting</keyword> in Virginia began almost a month ago on September 18. So far, over 1 million Virginians have already voted in-person or by mail, a level of voting that has reached nearly 27% of total 2016 presidential election turnout, <a href="https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html">according to the US Elections Project. </a>Civil and voting rights advocates expressed dismay over the incident."Election officials in Virginia have again failed the public," Kristen Clarke, the president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law said in a Tuesday statement. "The state's online voter registration portal has crashed on the eve of the registration deadline, leaving thousands of eligible people in the dark."In October 2016, <a href="https://live-lawyers-committee-2020.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/VA-voter-reg-extension-letter-CLEAN.pdf">Virginia's online voter registration system crashed and malfunctioned the day before the deadline</a>, leading groups including the Lawyer's Committee to sue the state to extend the deadline to register. "This error is particularly astounding given that this same problem occurred at virtually the same time in 2016," Clarke added. "We sued the state and secured an extension of the registration deadline allowing tens of thousands of voters the ability to register and vote. It is astonishing that Virginia has not learned from failures of the not-so-distant past." Florida's online voter registration portal<a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/judge-roasts-florida-voting-registration-after-website-crash"> crashed and became unavailable to users earlier this month</a> on the state's October 5 registration deadline due to an unprecedented surge of last-minute traffic to the site hours before online registration closed. The Florida Secretary of State's office extended the online voter registration deadline to 7 p.m. on the following day, October 6.

A judge extended Virginia's voter registration deadline until October 15 after a power outage caused 'tremendous harm'

Brought into effect by the biggest ever tax reform in India, GST has highly eased how businesses are done in the country. The essence of GST is creating a single system of tax collection across the nation to increase the taxpayer base and avoid the tax complexities. It has integrated multiple taxes into a single system. Why go for GST registration? Registering under GST is incumbent in India for individuals and entities supplying goods or services. GST becomes mandatory when the aggregate value of the supply can exceed over Rs. 20 lakhs per annum. In case of the entity doing business in a state classified under special category, GST registration is mandatory when the total value of the supplies might cross 10 lakhs per annum. Irrespective of the turnover, a person or entity can also choose to go for GST registration. Initially the GST guidelines made it not possible to surrender a voluntary GST registration for a period of one year. Eventually this was modified and the new regulations permit the surrendering of voluntary GST registration by the applicant anytime. Here we discuss the step by step procedure of registering under <keyword id="3612537" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="gst-in-india">GST in India</keyword>. <keyword id="7261268" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="GST-registration-process">GST Registration Process</keyword> <ul><li>The Central Government of India maintains an online portal to facilitate GST registration online. Here are the steps to register under GST.</li><li>Either through a Facilitation Center or on the GSTN portal, the applicant will have to submit his PAN, mobile number and email id in Part A of Form GST REG–01. </li><li>The GST portal verifies the PAN and also sends a one-time password (OTP) for verifying the mobile number and email id. After verification, the portal sends a reference number for the application submitted on the registered mobile number and email id of the applicant. An electronic acknowledgement will be issued to the applicant in FORM GST REG-02. </li><li>The applicant has to fill in Part- B of Form GST REG-01 by inputting the application reference number. Following this, the form has to be submitted with the necessary documents attached.</li><li>In case the portal will need any additional information from the candidate, Form GST REG-03 will be issued. From the date of receipt of Form GST REG-03, the applicant must furnish the information asked by responding through Form GST REG-04 within 7 working days.</li><li>The registration certificate in Form GST REG –06 is issued to the applicant both for the principal place of business and also for every additional place of business. If an individual or entity operates multiple businesses within a state, separate application must be submitted for GST registration for each of the businesses. </li></ul>Other useful information on GST registration In case the GSTN registration portal is not satisfied with the details submitted by the candidate, the GST registration application will be rejected using Form GST REG-05. The applicant who needs to deduct TDS or collect TCS is expected to register by submitting an application in Form GST REG – 07. If the authorities find that the entity or individual is no longer liable to deduct TDS or collect TCS, the applicant will be notified of it and the registration will be cancelled in such a case.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>An <a href="https://insights.targetsmart.com/august-7-2020-the-impact-of-covid-the-civil-rights-movement-on-voter-registration.html">analysis</a> from TargetSmart, a Democratic political data firm, revealed a decline in voter registration during the start of the coronavirus pandemic and an increase in Democrat voter registration following national protests. </li><li>The data firm discovered an increase in Democratic voters in protest hot spot, Minnesota, where <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/protests-death-george-floyd-minneapolis-new-york-denver-2020-5">George Floyd died by police officers on May 25</a>. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/voter-registration-surged-during-blm-protests-study-finds-n1236331">NBC News</a> reported that protests could be linked to the surge in voter registration.</li><li>"Despite a full or partial lockdown in large swaths of the country for much of the month, voter registration began to rebound as people took to the streets to protest," the firm wrote in their analysis report.</li></ul>Voter registration surged among Democratic voters following national unrest over police brutality, <a href="https://insights.targetsmart.com/august-7-2020-the-impact-of-covid-the-civil-rights-movement-on-voter-registration.html">according to an analysis of voter registration data by TargetSmart</a>, a Democratic political data firm.One of the biggest bumps was in Minnesota, where <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/protests-death-george-floyd-minneapolis-new-york-denver-2020-5">George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in May</a>. In the state, Democratic voter registration drastically increased in June, with around 32,000 registrations this year compared to around 17,000 in June 2016.TargetSmart ran the analysis to discover how recent events "impacted our <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="politics">politics</keyword> and how will they impact the 2020 elections," according to the firm's website. It shows that registration dipped in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, and rebounded amid the protests."Despite a full or partial lockdown in large swaths of the country for much of the month, voter registration began to rebound as people took to the streets to protest," TargetSmart said in its report.<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/voter-registration-surged-during-blm-protests-study-finds-n1236331">As NBC News pointed out</a>, many of the protests included voter registration efforts, which may have helped drive the surge.The firm <a href="https://insights.targetsmart.com/static/images/nationalchart.pdf">reported</a> that 1.1 million Americans registered to vote in the first two weeks of June compared to 2016 where 1.6 million voters registered for the entire month. Not all states have submitted an update of their voter files, the firm said.<h2>Overall registration still seems to lag because of the coronavirus</h2>Voter registration took a devastating blow at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the analysis. Millions of voters had to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/primary-voters-dilemma-vote-and-risk-coronavirus-or-stay-home-2020-3">juggle the risk of catching the virus</a> or cast their ballots during the primaries earlier this year. According to the firm, voter registration saw a dramatic decline as coronavirus paused the country's economy. During March and April of the 2016 presidential election year, 4.7 million Americans were registered to vote. This year, only 3.12 million Americans registered to vote during that same time period. The firm also pointed out a decline in May: "In May 2016, nearly 2 million people registered, and over the same period in 2020 just over 900,000 people registered, a 54% decrease," the firm wrote in the report. With the coronavirus pandemic, turnout in the 2020 presidential election remains uncertain, though the country is likely to see record mail <keyword id="43546" type="EVENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Voting">voting</keyword> turnout. Democrats are in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-mail-in-voting-fraud-but-will-still-win-election-2020-8">support of mail-in voting</a> to prevent the spread of coronavirus, while Donald Trump thinks it will be a <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1291112751981625351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1291112751981625351%7Ctwgr%5E&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Ftrump-mail-in-voting-fraud-but-will-still-win-election-2020-820-8">"nightmare."</a> Still, despite Trump's attacks on mail-in voting, USPS issued a statement to debunk his claims saying they have "ample capacity" to handle the processing if necessary. Read more:<ul class="read-more-links"><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/seattles-black-police-chief-carmen-best-resigns-after-budget-cuts-2020-8">Seattle's first Black female police chief announced her resignation after the city council voted to cut the department's budget and ax dozens of jobs</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/beirut-using-instagram-find-loved-ones-after-explosion-2020-8">An Instagram page is helping people locate their missing loved ones after a huge explosion devastated Beirut</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hawaii-just-saw-its-highest-primary-turnout-voted-by-mail-2020-8">Hawaii just saw a record high turnout in its primary election. Nearly everyone voted by mail.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/life-in-new-zealand-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-8">What it's like in New Zealand, where until Tuesday there hadn't been a new case of COVID-19 in more than 100 days</a></li></ul>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The last day of <keyword id="43546" type="EVENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Voting">voting</keyword> in the 2020 presidential election is on Tuesday, November 3. </li><li>The deadline to register online or by mail has passed in nearly every US state, but you can still register and vote in-person in some states. </li><li>Nineteen states and DC currently allow voters to register to vote on Election Day with valid proof of residency if they miss the deadline to register by mail or online.</li></ul>The last day of voting in the 2020 presidential election is on November 3. The deadline to register to vote by mail or online has passed, but it's still not too late in the many states that now offer same-day registration. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia currently allow voters to register to vote on Election Day if they miss the deadline to register by mail or online, <a href="https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/same-day-registration.aspx">according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.</a>You can register to vote in-person on Election Day in California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. North Carolina and New Mexico also offered same-day registration for those voting early at one-stop early voting sites, which were open through October 31, but do not offer Election Day registration. You must be 18 years old and a US citizen to be eligible to vote anywhere in the United States. When you register, you'll need to provide the identifying number associated with your driver's license or nondriver state ID card, or the last four digits of your Social Security number. All the states that offer same-day registration <a href="https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/same-day-registration.aspx">require new voters to present proof of residency</a> with a valid photo or non-photo ID, with many states mandating those who do not have the requisite ID to cast a provisional ballot until their residency is verified.While some allow voters to register directly at their polling places, others require same-day registrants to register at their county elections office, not a voting site, so be sure to double-check where to go in your county if you're registering on Election Day. As noted on the chart, North Dakota has no <keyword id="6424178" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="voter-registration">voter registration</keyword> and instead requires voters <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/voter-identification-requirements-in-each-state-2020-8">to show ID at the polls</a> in order to vote. The COVID-19 pandemic <a href="https://thecivicscenter.org/blog/2020/7/28/new-voter-registrations-have-plummeted-due-to-covid-19">has caused rates of new voter registrations to dramatically decrease across the board</a> as Department of Motor Vehicles offices and other government service centers had to close down, and large gatherings and voter registration drives were prohibited by state or local governments. If you're already registered to vote or have recently moved within your state, you can also use same-day registration to update your registration if necessary or verify your registration to make sure it's still active. States perform <a href="https://www.eac.gov/news/2017/03/10/fact-sheet-voter-registration-list-maintenance">routine voter list maintenance</a> to remove people who have moved to another state, died, or <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/where-americans-with-felony-convictions-can-vote-in-2020-election-2020-9">become ineligible to vote due to a felony conviction</a> from their voter rolls.While such practices <a href="https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/voter-list-accuracy.aspx">are an essential part of securing the integrity of elections</a>, clerical errors and other mistakes mean that eligible voters can be taken off the rolls for not voting for a long period of time or, in more aggressive purges, <a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2019/10/25/the-messy-politics-of-voter-purges">mistakenly removed from the rolls</a> for sharing the same name as a deceased, moved, or otherwise ineligible person. Expanded Coverage Module: insider-voter-guide

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The online registration for admissions in <keyword id="6355632" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mumbai-University">Mumbai University</keyword> for the undergraduate and diploma courses will close today. The students seeking admission in the university for the upcoming academic session will have to register on the official website by 5 pm. The applicants can register on mu.ac.in. Alternatively, students can apply for the university courses at mum.digitaluniversity.ac. Post the registration process, the university is expected to release the first merit list next week on 13 June, followed by the document verification on 14 June. The varsity rolls out three merit lists for admission to undergraduate and diploma courses. The second and third merit list will be out on 17 June and 20 June, respectively. Here’s how you can register: <ul><li>Visit the Mumbai University portal mum.digitaluniversity.ac.</li><li>Hover to the tab that for registration— ‘Click Here For Mumbai University Pre Admission online registrations 2019-20’</li><li>Submit the registration application by filling in the details including address and educational qualification among others.</li><li>Select the program and submit.</li></ul>The university has released an informative video to explain the admission process.

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<ul><li>The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has prepared a draft Bill titled RPP Bill, 2019 to replace the existing PRB Act, 1867. </li><li>The bill proposes to bring e-papers and digital media news under MIB’s purview.</li><li>The bill also recommends having a simple system of registration for e-papers and enables the Government to frame rules for issuing Government ads in newspapers. </li></ul>The <keyword id="510157" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ministry-of-Information-and-Broadcast">Ministry of Information and Broadcast</keyword> (MIB) has proposed a draft to replace Press and Registration of Books (PRB) Act, 1867 with <keyword id="8379576" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="registration-of-press-and-periodicals-bill-2019">Registration of Press and Periodicals Bill 2019</keyword>. Under the new Bill, MIB proposes to bring e-papers and digital news under its purview. The Bill also proposes to do away with the existing procedure of furnishing of declaration by publishers or printers before the District Magistrate and its subsequent authentication. If passed, it would enable the Central Government and the State Government to frame rules and regulate the conditions for issuing Government advertisements in newspapers, accreditation of newspapers and such other facilities for newspapers. It further proposes to have a simple system of registration of e-papers. The process of title and registration of periodicals including newspapers is also proposed to be effected centrally by the Press Registrar General.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Getty / Joe Raedle</div></div></div>If you're like most registered American voters, you probably mailed a paper form to your local election office to make sure you were all set.Maybe that was five years ago because you've been at the same address for a while. Or it maybe it was last week if you only learned of your state's deadline a little while ago.But never mind when it happened, because it shouldn't have to be this way.Voter registration should be automatic."The question you have to ask," says Whitney Quesenbery, co-director of the Center for Civic Design, "is why do we make citizens jump through hoops to become voters?"While several US states <a href="http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/automatic-voter-registration.aspx">have passed legislation</a> to make voter registration automatic, only Oregon has put laws into place. Even some countries have taken the wisdom of automatic registration to heart, including Sweden and France, <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/08/02/u-s-voter-turnout-trails-most-developed-countries/">whose turnout rates</a> in their most recent election were 82.6% and 71.2% respectively.America's? Just 53.6%.In Quesenbery's view, states already have access to so much of citizens' identifying information that local governments should be able to make registration the default.That's how it works in Sweden. The Swedish Tax Administration is in charge of updating people's names, addresses, and marital statuses, and municipalities supply the details. Before an election, <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/how_they_do_it/2008/10/doing_democracy_right.html">officials comb through that database</a> and send proofs of registration to people in each district letting them know where and when to vote.Oregon has a similar set-up, which Quesenbery says could set a good example for the rest of the <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/05/automatic-voter-registration-gaining-steam">28 states currently considering</a> automatic voter registration policies.In Oregon, as long as you've had a "qualifying interaction," which the state defines as one that supplies your basic identification info, such as a trip to the DMV, you're registered.A few weeks after that interaction, you get a postcard that reminds you of the registration. You have three choices at that point. You can either do nothing and stay registered; you can specify which party you belong to; or you can ask to opt out for any reason.It's simple and uses existing technology that every state government has access to, Quesenbery says. The challenge in getting automatic registration everywhere is that it also requires a culture shift."That takes some time," she says. "And as much as I want to see it all happen tomorrow, I think there's some value to each state being able to work through the issues and move there on their own."The fact more than half the states already are embracing something that's brand-new reveals how good of an idea it is, Quesenbery adds."I think it's going to move very fast," she says, "because as a government leader how do you stand up and say, 'I want to do something that makes it harder for people to register to vote'?" <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-photobomb-bill-clinton-presidential-debate-2016-10">Watch Trump repeatedly photobomb Clinton during the debate</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="JocWJpNjE6fN4g131cTRZOXTNvxsY1pn" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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New Delhi, Feb 19 () The government is considering making it mandatory for paper importers to register themselves before importing the commodity, a move aimed at keeping a tab on imports of the product, an official said. The consideration is on the lines of steel sector, where the government has made it mandatory for traders to register themselves with Steel Import Monitoring System to import 215 iron and steel products. "We are working similar arrangement for paper industry also. Importer will have to give specific information about the product before importing," an official said. Under the system, which is under consideration, a paper importer could have to submit advance information in an online system for imports of these items, and obtain an automatic registration number by paying specified amount of fee. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade, under the Commerce Ministry, is looking at the matter. India imports different types of papers, including coated paper, paper boards, hand made papers, waste paper. The paper industry has time and again expressed concerns about cheap imports and surge in inbound shipments. "This has a significant negative impact on coated paper manufacturing industry," the official said. RR RVK

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Officials are warning about voter registration scams ahead of the 2024 presidential election.</li><li>Scammers are posing as get-out-the-vote groups in fake text messages.</li></ul>Did you get a text message saying you aren't registered to vote? It could be a scam.With the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-leads-trump-michigan-pennsylvania-wisconsin-swing-state-polls-2024-8">2024 presidential election fast approaching</a>, officials in several states are warning about scammers pretending to be voter registration agencies.Voter registration fraud is one of the three most common scams during an election cycle, alongside cons involving political donations and fake polls, according to the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nass.org/sites/default/files/2021-08/CSN%20Election%20Scams%20Infosheet_NASS.pdf">National Association of Secretaries of State</a>. Scammers typically contact victims by phone, text, or email — and sometimes in person — to say they need personal information to update voter registration forms.In Shasta County, California, the county clerk and election officials warned last week that a text message asking recipients to click a link to register to vote was a scam. Officials said clicking the link could trigger malware and put the victim's personal information at risk.On the other side of the country, election officials in Lake County, Florida, issued a similar warning in March. County Supervisor Alan Hays told residents to "be vigilant this election cycle for political scams that can mislead unsuspecting individuals into a frightful experience that can be difficult to overcome," <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.clickorlando.com/results-2024/2024/05/17/avoid-potential-voter-registration-text-scam-dont-click-on-links-elections-chief-says/">local media reported</a>.Clerks in <a target="_blank" href="https://kslnewsradio.com/2067347/beware-of-voting-scams/">Salt Lake City</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://abc7news.com/post/election-2024-voting-scams-ca-bay-area-voter-registration-kamala-harris-donald-trump/15147997/">San Francisco</a> have issued similar warnings as well.The National Association of Secretaries of State says voters should check to see if the communication is coming from local or state election officials and be wary if anyone asks for payment to complete voter registration documents.The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2008/08/ftc-cautions-consumers-about-voter-registration-scams">Federal Trade Commission</a> recommends reporting any unsolicited texts or calls from someone who says they need your Social Security number or personal or financial information to register you to vote. If you send your personal information to someone you don't know and think you may be the victim of a scam, you can visit the <a target="_blank" href="https://consumer.ftc.gov/features/identity-theft">FTC's identity theft recovery page</a> to report the fraud.The FTC recommends contacting your local election office or checking the US Election Assistance Commission's National Voter Registration Form to determine whether your state requires your Social Security number for voter registration.

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