Please explain why that would be a default registration date.
Excel uses 1-1-1900 as their default earliest date. 1918 makes no sense whatsoever.
Edit: I get it now. Default birth date 1-1-1900 + default voter registration at 18 = 1-1-1918.
Except excel doesn't automatically populate dates.
It does under certain scenarios. I've had this issue pop up when I've used it. I think maybe when it mass imports from a .csv into fields formatted for dates.
Any date field with a 0 entry will turn into 1/1/1900.
End of WW1
That was 11-11-18.
Thats what they chose. Its 104 years ago, making it a lot easier to identify people and less likely to get conflated with say someone in the 1970s etc. The official statement is "When a municipality’s system didn’t track a voter’s date of birth or initial date of registration, a default date was entered into the statewide system: 1/1/1900 for date of birth and 1/1/1918 for date of registration."
Which everyone who isn't corrupt would say if you do not have valid voter info, esp the dob, it isn't a valid registration.
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