Posted on 09/03/2019 9:05:14 AM PDT by re_tail20
More than a year after it was authorized by the Legislature, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday gave the state’s 67 elections supervisors their number one priority for 2020 by joining a multi-state compact to share voter roll information.
DeSantis said Florida would become the 29th state to join the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, which makes it easier to track voter registrations across state lines, clean up voter polls of deceased voters and — possibly most importantly — reach out via mail to every eligible but unregistered voter in Florida.
DeSantis estimated that between 4 million to 5 million Floridians aren’t registered to vote.
Earlier this year, Division of Elections director Maria Matthews alluded to the unregistered voter outreach provision in ERIC as the “stick” in a “carrot and stick” in talking about whether to join the compact.
That description was criticized by some supervisors, and some critics held it up as the reason the DeSantis administration was slow in joining the partnership.
Supervisors “bristled at the idea that reaching out to unregistered voters should be viewed as some sort of punishment,” Politico reported in May.
On Wednesday, the governor made it clear the state would only be making the mass voter outreach because it was an ERIC requirement. He said he was skeptical Florida would get a huge response in voter registration.
“People spend big money trying to get voters registered,” DeSantis said at the Orange County elections office in Orlando. “If it was just as easy to send them a postcard in the mail and fill it out, well, that would make it much easier. And typically you’ve [actually] got to do more outreach than that.''
He said joining with other states "makes the most sense” for keeping voter rolls clean, “especially given the fact that we...
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Our voting system needs serious cleanup and reform. I’m not sure this is a serious effort, but if it is, it could be a real game changer.
BUMP!
Cleaning up voter rolls, HOORAY!
Registering low-information scum, HISSSSS!
Good!!
While I would love to see NY’s and CA’s voter rolls purged, I seriously doubt it would happen or that it would make any difference.
As long as the state is going dem anyways, it doesn’t really matter whether it,s by 10’s of thousands or hundreds of thousands, or the millions that it is.
It would likely help in some local elections, but because of that, I don’t expect it to ever happen. It’s NY after all.
And just another reason we’re making our NYEXIT.
Good! De Santis is one of the good guys.
A lot of our liberal vote in Florida comes from people also registered in New York or New Jersey, so I hope those states will cooperate.
These are the States and District that have joined ERIC so far
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Iowa
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nevada
New Mexico
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Washington, D.C.
These are the remaining states that need to join ERIC (Freepers who live in these states, please lobby your state officials to make your state a member too)
Arkansas
California
Hawaii
Idaho
Indiana
Kansas
Maine
Massachusetts
Mississippi
Montana
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Wyoming
That’s a good HISSSSS! Thanks.
Thanks re_tail20.
Are the other states D?
5 of the 21 not in ERIC are hard D. Some others in the middle, rest are Rs.
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