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The Statewide Voter Registration System (SVRS), an electronic database that simultaneously links all of Indiana’s 92 county’s voter registration records, was created in 2006 in coordination with Secretary Rokita’s office and all 92 counties. County input, testing, and use has been critical in developing and enhancing a system which complies with federal mandates and provides accurate voter registration data.

The system is also linked to the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the Social Security Administration databases to help verify voter registration records. Additional data provided to the system from the Indiana Department of Health and Department of Correction assist local election officials in their efforts to remove the records of deceased and incarcerated voters. With these additional tools, the SVRS provides a dramatic improvement over the counties old, individual systems by keeping the voter rolls current and accurate, at the time the individual voter's information is input into the system. This approach has allowed the removal or inactivation of approximately 600,000 records from the rolls, which would otherwise clog up the system and lead to inaccurate results.

The SVRS has seen a significant increase in use over the last week, as voter registration offices work to input all completed registrations and as county election boards process absentee ballot applications.