Stop Digital ID—Amend 339

In this article we are going to discuss House Bill 339, Digital ID, and the Voter Roll Management software that is being used to collect data on all Idaho voters. Once we understand the way these are related we will have a better idea of how to stop Digital ID in Idaho.

The article is divided into three sections. The first shows how the personal data of all Idaho residents is being collected and processed by the Voter Roll Management software running in the Secretary of State's office. The second shows how the SOS is attempting to justify mass data collection based on voter roll integrity. And in the final section, legislation that can prevent invasive data collection and stop digital ID will be proposed.

House Bill 339, Digital ID, and Voter Roll Software

Most people already know what a threat centralized data collection, and Digital ID is to individual liberty, but for those who would like more information, the following articles provide background on Digital ID and related topics.

• Data Collection Disguised as Election Integrity—Shows how HB 339 (2025) provides for mass data collection on all Idaho voters, but utterly fails to clean up voter rolls.

• Digital Identities and Phantom Voters—Shows how digital ID is related to electronic registration, and how election integrity will be used as an excuse to force acceptance of biometric, digital IDs.

• Letter to Senate State Affairs Considering HB 339—Contents of a letter written against HB 339 when it was being considered by the Senate State Affairs Committe.

• Digital Identities: Who Verifies the Verifiers—Shows that the push for Digital Driver's Licenses is coming from a private corporation that benefits from digital verification services, both financially and politically.

• Phantom Election Management Software—Shows that the Election Management software running in the SOS office allows for fraud and is likely under the control of bad actors.

Digital ID and Mass Data Collection

In 2024 Idaho legislators passed House Bill 339. It replaced 34-433, a paragraph requiring the board of health to report data on all deceased residents, with an enormously complex statute allowing the collection of personal data, from dozens of government and private agencies. In the name of "verifying voter registration data," HB 339 authorized the Secretary of State to collect, store, and process unlimited amounts of personal information about all Idaho voters, and to share it with unnamed states, NGOs, and private corporations.

HB 339 was presented as an "Election Integrity" bill, and was given a pass recommendation by the state affairs committee. So many legislators who did not investigate the bill thoroughly, went along with it. But it is not only a colossal over-reach, in terms of data collection, it does almost nothing to clean up voter rolls.

HB 339 should never have passed, but now that the system is in place, removing it will be challenging. To oppose this system, it is important to understand what is at stake. There are three things law-makers should understand before crafting legislation.

1) It's All About Digital ID. The true purpose of HB 339 was to collect data for the purpose of implementing a nationalized system of digital ID. HB 78, the bill intended to provide for electronic driver's licenses did not authorize collection of any data, because if it had, it would have been too controversial. Instead, data collection was assigned to HB 339, using "voter roll integrity" as the excuse. The open-ended manner in which HB 339 is written to allow for the broadest possible collection and sharing of personal data, shows the bill's true purpose.

And AAMVA, the NGO most associated with Digital Driver's Licenses, is already a contractor for the Secretary of States office, and already has access to Idaho voter rolls.

2) Idaho's Voter List Maintenance Software provides for Mass Data Collection and Storage. The company that runs Idaho's election management software is Tenex Software Solutions. And if you go to its web page, and review the description of its All Inclusive Voter Management Platform it is clear that the Tenex "Voter Central" database stores and processes "extensive data about voters", including much, much more information than relates directly to voter registration. Why is this?

And who exactly decided that Idaho's SOS office should store "extensive" data? It seems that the software used to integrate personal data on every Idaho voter was developed by Tenex long before HB 339 was presented to the legislature. HB 339 was not proposed because it was the best way to verifiy Idaho voter rolls. It was designed to populate a database provided to Idaho's SOS by Tenex Software. This is the tail wagging the dog.

3) Who is Behind Tenex Software Solutions? By initial appearances it seems that Tenex is driving the Digital ID Bus. But when you look closer at the "Voter Central" software and the company behind it, things get even more worrisome. As we proved in the article Phantom Election Management Software, Tenex did not develop the voter management software that it sold to the Idaho SOS office. It seems that Tenex is merely a "systems integration" company, and it leases its election software from another, unidentified entity. So Tenex is not the driving force behind Digital ID and no one knows who is.

We don't know who wrote the Tenex "Voter Central" software, but we know that it is the same entity that is responsible for the registration fraud algorithms that Dr. Douglas Frank has proven are operating in all 50 states.

And we know that this entity is now using the Tenex platform to integrate the personal data of all Idaho voters into its "Voter Central" system. So it appears the same software vendor behind the nationwide epidemic of computerized election fraud is also in charge of Digital ID. Nothing to worry about!!

Mass Data Collection is needed for Secure Elections

Mass Data Collection—It is mind-boggling how much data about every Idaho resident House Bill 339 allows the Secretary of State to collect.

The bill starts by formalizing and expanding the collection and storage of data from agencies it already has the means to collect data from: Dept. of Health and Welfare, DMV, Social Security, DHS (for immigration status), Post Office, and Department of Corrections.

It then goes wildly off the rails, demanding unlimited information from agencies with no direct bearing on registration status. It authorizes the SOS to share the data collected and "enter into contracts" with unspecified agencies, NGOs, credit agencies and data providers. And there is no explicit wording in the bill that limits what can be done with the data, or who can access it.

Controlling the Narrative—Anyone who reads the complete text of HB 339 can see the problems, but few people actually read legislation. That allows the promoters of mass surveillance to claim the bill made elections more secure. And State Officials are already pushing the story that investigating tax records and immigration status have lead to arrests. For example:

Seven people charged with illegal voting. In this case, vacation home owners who voted "illegally" in the county in which their vacation homes were located were charged with voter fraud. This helps justify the SOS reviewing propery tax status, all forms of goverment records, and sharing registration data with other states to determine whether a home-owner is voting from their "primary" residence.

Two People arrested in Ada County for voting illegally. In this case, two people were arrested for illegal voting: One because they were an illegal immigrant, and the other while on felony probation. These arrests were attributed directly to the SOS "sweeping voter roll review", and were reported by news outlets accross the state.

Expect more highly publicized arrests of "illegal voters" in the coming months, as the SOS tries to justify the invasive collection of data on all Idaho voters. But of course, if the "voter roll review" was effective, unqualified voters would be screened out before they voted.

Legislative Remedies for House Bill 339

Preventing the adoption of Digital ID requires revising 34-443, the Idaho statute was modified by HB 339. But that is not all that must be done. Several of the suggestions made in the article Legislative Fixes to Election Fraud, are also necessary to reign in collection of voter Information. In particular, 1) electronic registration must be eliminated altogether, and 2) the statutes governing mail in voting could be improved. These steps will not only make computerized election fraud harder to get away with, they will also do a better job of cleaing up Idaho voter rolls than the method put forth by HB 339.

In terms of reigning in HB 339, it would be ideal to rescind the entire bill, and return 34-443 to its previous form. However the following amendments to 34-433 are suggested because they target areas where HB 339 clearly oversteps all rational boundaries, and provides the SOS almost unlimited license to collect data for which there is no justification.

1) All Data collected must be specified; no open-ended data collection. There are nine incidents where the term "all data relevant to determining the accuracy of voter registrations, including, but not limited to . . . ." legal names, birthdate, etc. In all cases the text should be amended to read "including and limited to . . . ." This change should be made in paragraphs 1-a-i, 1-a-ii, 1-a-ii, 1-b-ii, 1-b-iii, 1-b-iv.

2) Disallow collection of data from unspecified institutions, government offices, corporations, and data providers. 1-b-v allows the SOS to collection data from "any entity, including state entities, other states, and third party data providers subject to the jurisdiction of the state of idaho." This is colossol over-reach. Eliminate 1-b-v. (the entire paragraph) !!!!!!!

3) Disallow the sharing of data with Commercial data Providers and credit agencies. The first part of 34-433-2 allows the SOS to enter into cooperative contracts with "states and groups of states" to verify residence status of Idaho voters. And some such contracts with other public agencies could be justified. But the second part of 34-433-2 allows the sharing of personal information with private commercial data providers and credit agencies, and that is unacceptable. Delete section 2, from "Secretary of State is authorized to contract with commercial data providers . . . "

4) Disallow collection of data from unspecified Federal Agencies. 1-b-iv allows the SOS to collect data related to voter registration as needed from the following Federal agencies : DHS, US Attorney General, SSA, USPS. This information can be used to verify registration data at the time of application. 1-b-ii requests biannual data from the "Federal Government" but does not not specify or limit the federal agencies it refers to. This request for information is either redundant or open-ended. Eliminate 1-b-ii.

5) Disallow the collection of State tax records. 1-b-1 allows the SOS to collection tax records from the state tax commission to make sure people are registered to vote at the home they claim as their primary residence. However, there are allowable exceptions (nursing homes, schools, long term employment contracts, family separations, etc.), and guidelines for enforcement are not clear. Eliminate 1-b-i

6) Data Received by the SOS shall be deleted from the SOS server no more than 30 days after it has been processed. 34-433-5 allows the data collected by the SOS for the purpose of voter roll verification to be retained for up to 30 days after it has been processed, but does not require that it be deleted. 34-433-5 should be modified to guarantee no data will be stored more than 30 days after it is processed.

Long term the entire Tenex Software system should be decommissioned and replaced with a less centralized, far more transparent method of election management. But in the short term, we aim only to make sure the existing software does as little harm as possible, while still functioning.