Posted on 03/22/2023 3:54:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A seemingly inoffensive bipartisan outfit created to help states sort out their voter rolls has emerged as the latest partisan battlefield, with a half-dozen Republican-led states canceling their involvement with the organization this year, saying it has turned into a proving ground for left-wing ideas.
Ohio and Iowa withdrew from the Electronic Registration Information Center last week, and Florida, West Virginia and Missouri did so earlier this month. Alabama canceled its membership in January, and Louisiana withdrew last year.
Alaska’s election chief is also eyeing the exit, and legislators in Texas are pushing for an out, too.
“ERIC has chosen repeatedly to ignore demands to embrace reforms that would bolster confidence in its performance, encourage growth in its membership, and ensure not only its present stability but also its durability,” Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose wrote in his withdrawal letter, complaining about decisions he said have turned ERIC into an organization “that appears to favor only the interests of one political party.”
Some conservative experts cautioned against a total abandonment, saying whatever its flaws, ERIC serves a critical purpose.
“ERIC is a toolbox that states use to help clean voter rolls,” said J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation. “The more states that leave ERIC, the less clean our voter rolls will be, until there’s an effective replacement that has been accepted by other states.”
The center is the latest victim of the deep rift that has emerged over how the U.S. conducts its elections, with competing views over what’s more important. Democrats generally argue that the paramount goal is to have as many people as possible voting. Republicans say it’s most important to ensure votes aren’t cast fraudulently.
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Not Georgia. RINO Brad Raffensperger and Brian Kemp are all-In on ERIC.
The Base seems to be doing a better job figuring this out than the GOP party leaders.
Election riggers. Scum
They aren't called "the Uniparty" for nothing.
I don't know how all of these incorrect assertions, labeling them as conservative, escape the editors. /sarcasm
The only purpose ERIC serves, is to assist the Democrat politicians in their elections, period. Only a blind idiot, or someone whose intention it is to gaslight, would make such a blatantly false statement.
This ERIC voter roll outfit is a tool used by the Democrat Party for vote fraud. ERIC gave the Democrat Party in key states info on voter names that hadn’t voted for a while or maybe had moved that those state Dems could use those name/addresses for a bundle of fake mail in/absentee votes to fake the vote.
Here in WI, we knew the state voter list needed purging but the Democrats had the majority on the state election commission so the dead/moved names remained in 2020 and 2022.
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