State would post voter files and keep a five-year archive

The secretary of state would maintain the statewide voter registration system, post the complete file weekly, and keep a rolling five-year archive online. County auditors would send daily changes and other updated registration and election-history information to the secretary of state. Weekly posts would include updates from county master registration files. The historical archive would be available free of charge. The secretary of state would post the file and archive before 11:59 p.m. Central Time each Monday. The text sets weekly Monday posting deadlines and requires county updates after each primary and general election.

Certain personal information in the historical archive would be closed to public inspection, while other voter-file information could not be sold, used commercially, or posted freely online except under listed laws. The protected archive information includes Social Security numbers, driver license numbers, South Dakota nondriver identification numbers, and birth months and days. Campaign and political polling activities would not count as commercial purposes. A paper voter list fee charged by the secretary of state would not count as selling the information. A violation would be a Class 1 misdemeanor, and a court could impose a civil penalty of up to $2,000 per violation. These limits would apply to information in the historical archive and to information obtained from statewide or county voter-registration files.