Posted on 03/14/2023 8:57:58 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
The media is condemning officials in Republican-led states for withdrawing from a controversial data-sharing consortium that purports to help manage voter registration rolls and, not surprisingly, the news reports fail to tell the whole story. The system is known as the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) and it claims to be an efficient and cost-effective mechanism for states to maintain accurate voter rolls. ERIC is a nonprofit that was formed by leftist operatives in 2012 and, until recently, had more than 30 member states. It claims that its sole mission is assisting states to improve the accuracy of America’s voter rolls and increase access to voter registration for all eligible voters.
The reality is much different and Judicial Watch offers compelling information deliberately omitted by the media in a White Paper released this week. The document presents facts that directly contradict recent news coverage attacking Republican-led states—including Florida, West Virginia, and Missouri—for cutting ties with ERIC. The New York Times expresses fervent support for ERIC, writing that the nonprofit “has faced intensifying attacks from election deniers and right-wing media.” National Public Radio proclaims that “the far right is now running a disinformation campaign against one of the best tools that states have to detect and prevent voter fraud.” The headline of a recent Washington Post story reads: “Election deniers take aim at group that helps states maintain voter rolls.” The list of media critics is extensive and ranges from national outlets to small town newspapers.
The fact is that ERIC has been far more successful at identifying unregistered voters than duplicate or invalid registrations, according to research conducted by Judicial Watch. The organization reports identifying more than 60 million unregistered voters since 2012. That is not to say that it has not been effective at identifying many potentially improper or invalid voter registrations. However, certain aspects of its operations are incredibly dubious. For instance, ERIC was founded by the liberal Pew Charitable Trusts, potentially with funding that originated from leftist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) network. Its founder, who remains influential within the organization, has a history of leftwing activism and unethical conduct. ERIC also shares the vast amount of sensitive personal data it receives from member states with another liberal nonprofit, the Center for Election Innovation and Research, a key player in the Zuckerbucks scandal in which private entities donated millions of dollars to fund government vote counts in the 2020 elections.
Records obtained by Judicial Watch show that ERIC is far more effective at swelling voter registration rolls than at keeping them clean. Our research also determined that the large amount of sensitive data provided to ERIC by member states and the organization’s role in maintaining voter rolls may violate a number of federal statutes. Among them are the Help America Vote Act, National Voter Registration Act and Driver’s Privacy Protection Act. The first statute provides states the authority and obligation to create and maintain electronic voter registration files but includes no provision that authorizes any state to outsource these obligations to a third party like ERIC. The outsourcing of voter registration list maintenance to ERIC may also violate the National Voter Registration Act, which protects from disclosure the identities of individuals who decline to register to vote. Finally, the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act specifically shields from disclosure the kind of data provided to ERIC by member states to conduct list maintenance.
These types of privacy concerns were among the reasons Florida officials recently severed ties with ERIC. “Withdrawing from ERIC will ensure the data privacy of Florida voters is protected,” according to an announcement issued by the Florida Department of State this week. In the press release Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd explains that he has an obligation to protect the personal information of Florida’s citizens, which ERIC requires the state to share. “Florida has tried to back reforms to increase protections, but these protections were refused,” Byrd said. “Therefore, we have lost confidence in ERIC.” Missouri Secretary of State John Ashcroft reveals that ERIC “allows for a hyper-partisan individual to be an ex-officio non-voting member on its governance board.” He also opposes ERIC’s focus on adding names to voter rolls by requiring a solicitation to individuals who already had an opportunity to register and made the conscious decision not to.
Now you know how this happens:
Trump Proven Correct As Over 1.2 Million Ineligible Voters Removed From LA Voter Rolls
a few posts down
FTA: “ Washington Post story reads: “Election deniers take aim at group that helps states maintain voter rolls.”
“MAINTAIN” is the operative word here. In other words, maintain or keep voters on the rolls, valid or not, to assist in ballot printing, mailing, harvesting.
D run election offices —if they had any credulity—would remove ineligible voters, but they don’t remove them. It’s the only way by which they can win elections.
/bingo
They should do away with any tri-state areas.
ERIC doesn’t claim any real property outside of computer equipment, software and a website.
So, this is a remote run operation.
https://ericstates.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ERIC_FY2021_Financial_Audit.pdf
It’s initial formation was co-founded and guided by this Leftist:
David Becker
https://www.influencewatch.org/person/david-becker/
Here’s their board members:
https://ericstates.org/who-we-are/
Interesting tidbit on a board member:
Monica Evans
Executive Director, Washington D.C. Board of Elections
(Alexandria, VA) – December 6, 2021: Today, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a federal lawsuit against Monica Evans, the Executive Director of the District of Columbia Board of Elections, for failure to permit inspection of voter list maintenance records as required by the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).
“ERIC is being used to hide decisions about who gets to vote and who is removed from the rolls,” said PILF President J. Christian Adams. “Transparency in elections leads to trust in results and accountability for election officials. ERIC and its agreement with the District of Columbia is standing in the way of transparency and violating federal law.”
Source:
https://publicinterestlegal.org/press/pilf-sues-the-d-c-board-of-elections-for-failure-to-provide-voter-list-maintenance-records/
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Below was a related post by tired&retired, original here: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4133484/posts?page=18#18
Here is a video of their Director.
Washington Journal
Jonathan Brater on Voter Fraud Commission
Jonathan Brater talked about Trump administration efforts to obtain voter data from states through its Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.
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Below was a related post by thinden, original here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4133484/posts?page=19#19
here’s something of interest re: ERIC & Shane Hamlin. connection to Soros’ open society?
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Curious if you and others are aware of Jay Valentine’s fractal technology which instantly matches voter registrations with property roles and finds addresses where no one lives, or gas stations with dozens of registered voters.
They often suceed in presenting evidence to election offices and getting illegitimate voters removed. Mike Lindell was a big proponent.
This moves a step beyond harvesting ballots to CREATING ADDRESSES to which ballots can be mailed, intercepted, and harvested.
R leaders coming around to harvesting ballots prior to election day where legal are still one step behind. It’s addresses, not ballots.
Fractal tech has found corrupt D election offices purposely changing voters’s addresses with some incorrect information, mailing ballots the next day, and restoring correct address lists. Meanwhile, the tranch of ballots mailed to incorrect addresses are harvested by US Mail or peeps paid with Zuck bucks.
Every hear about any of this ?
It is rare for an organization to improve when the founder is sent packing. This is not to say that Klayman’s abuse of the judicial system did not have its benefits and triumphs, but the organization is so much better on many fronts since they tossed Klayman.
The organization reports identifying more than 60 million unregistered voters since 2012. That is not to say that it has not been effective at identifying many potentially improper or invalid voter registrations. However, certain aspects of its operations are incredibly dubious. For instance, ERIC was founded by the liberal Pew Charitable Trusts, potentially with funding that originated from leftist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) network. Its founder, who remains influential within the organization, has a history of leftwing activism and unethical conduct. ERIC also shares the vast amount of sensitive personal data it receives from member states with another liberal nonprofit, the Center for Election Innovation and Research, a key player in the Zuckerbucks scandal in which private entities donated millions of dollars to fund government vote counts in the 2020 elections.
Records obtained by Judicial Watch show that ERIC is far more effective at swelling voter registration rolls than at keeping them clean.
This seems like it may intersect with this, with a paltry 27,000 views:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i3myQdDnwA
Rep. Luna Proves Joint State Actor Between Twitter & Federal Government
February 8, 2023
Press Release
Washington, D.C. – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 8th, 2023
Contact: Edie Heipel, Edie.Heipel@mail.house.gov
In today’s House Oversight and Accountability Hearing, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna blasted the Biden Administration’s attempts to hide the malicious collusion between Big Tech and Big Government out of the water.
As Rep. Luna outlined in a flow chart, today’s hearing undeniably proved what we’ve known all along: that federal agencies, social media companies and leftist non-profits teamed up to censor Americans and violate the First Amendment.
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