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Including and Enabling the Department of Voter Registration Act 2025

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Including and Enabling the Department of Voter Registration Act 2025

Passed by the Senate and signed by the President on 10 August 2025.

Written by Muggy

Preamble

Whereas, the DVR should be able to more effectively make judgement calls with approval from the judiciary on striking SUITs. Whereas, as the DVR and EC have a duty to ensure election security, the DVR should be applicable in the Criminal Code

Article I – Amendments to the Voter Registration Act 2024

§1. Article 4, §3.1., of the Voter Registration Act 2024 shall be amended to read as the following: 

 Ҥ3.1. The discovery of false information being used in their application to the Department of Voter Registration.
   §3.1.1. This includes, but is not limited to, providing the Department of Voter Registration with falsified information upon the department’s further inspection into the applicant.”

Article 2: Amendments to the Criminal Code 2020

§1. Article 37a, §1.3.1. of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to read as the following: 

 “§1.3.1. Did not give prompt valid notification to the Department of Voter Registration once they knew or ought to have known that they had erroneously re-registered, and”

§2. Article 37a, §2. of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to read as the following: 

 “§2. A notification to the Department of Voter Registration under §1.3 of this Article shall only be considered valid if it is accompanied with clear and convincing evidence that the person owns the erroneously registered account.”

§3. Article 37b of the Criminal Code 2020 shall be amended to read as the following: 

 “Article 37b. Misrepresentation to Electoral Authorities
 §1. A person commits misrepresentation to Electoral Authorities if they give false or misleading information to the Electoral Commission and/or Department of Voter Registration.
 §2. A person commits fraudulent misrepresentation to Electoral Authorities if they:
   §2.1. Give false or misleading information to the Electoral Commission and/or Department of Voter Registration and,
     §2.1.1. False or misleading information shall include, but shall not be limited to registering with an account that is not owned or operated by the user that registered, voting with another individual’s SimDemocracy Identification Token, and registering with more accounts than one’s primary account. 
   §2.2. Either know the information was false or misleading, or are reckless as to whether the information was untrue or not.
 §3. It shall be an absolute defence to a crime under §1 of this Article if the accused person:
   §3.1. Acted with reasonable due diligence and good faith in giving the false or misleading information, and either
   §3.2. Promptly notified the Electoral Commission and/or Department of Voter Registration of the false or misleading information once they knew it was false or misleading, or
   §3.3. Did not know that the information was false or misleading.
 §4. The sentences available for misrepresentation to Electoral Authorities shall be a mute or ban between one (1) day and three (3) months.
 §5. The sentences available for fraudulent misrepresentation to Electoral Authorities shall be a ban between two (2) weeks and one (1) year.“

Article 3: Implementation

§1. This bill shall go into effect upon passage in the Senate and signature from the President of SimDemocracy.