General Discussion

The birthdate wasn’t part of the voter registration in many states. In the 1990’s it became a federal requirement of state lists. But many clerks entered in “1/1/1800” to indicate that they did not know their birthday. It was supposed to clue the poll worker in to ask for it at the next election.

We did that, as poll workers, for about a decade around 1995-2005. Most of the people we got. I haven’t seen a “1/1/1800” birthday on a master voter file list in a while. But that is what it means.