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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