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verify voters' addresses and find out whether individuals have moved and are no longer eligible to vote at the address at which they are registered. • All new and updated voter registrations are verified against either the driver's license database or the Social Security Administration database. If those databases are not available due to a shutdown, voters who do not bring additional documentation to the polling place could lose their right to vote. • Help America Vote Act (HAVA) complaints may not be processed. As a result, Minnesota would be in violation of HAVA. • Voter registrations and absentee ballot requests may not be forwarded to the appropriate county auditor, and therefore voters could lose their right to vote if they believed that they would receive an absentee ballot, but do not. • On-line look up tools-such as Polling Place Finder, Registration Look-Up and Absentee Look-up-may not be maintained. Voters may go to the wrong polling place, may not bring required documentation, and may not know if their absentee ballot has been accepted. Providing documents essential for adoption and international trade. People who must authenticate US documents for an international office, in the form of Apostilles and Authentications, may not be able to: complete an overseas adoption; travel abroad; contract business overseas; get married abroad; or obtain academic credits for classes attended abroad. Crop and Livestock Loans: the Central Notification System. There could be a significant reduction in agricultural lending because private lenders would not be able to secure financing of agricultural loans through the proceeds from the sale of the farm product. In practical terms, farmers may not be paid for their crops. Business Finance Documents: Uniform Commercial Code functions. Lending, and therefore business development, could be reduced significantly in Minnesota. Lenders, including but not limited to banks, could stop making loans because they would be unable to confirm that other lenders had no prior claim to the loan's collateral. These lenders would also be unable to inform others that they had a claim on the loan's collateral. Home Sales Documents: Tax Liens. Property sales, including home sales, could be delayed because lenders may be unable to check the status of tax liens. As well, individuals who owe debts in the form of tax liens could transfer ownership and escape paying their tax debts, weakening debt rules. Service of Process for Corporations. Failure to provide this function will mean that legal actions against businesses could be delayed and citizens, who have been harmed by businesses, could forfeit their rights through the expiration of the statutes of limitations.