"We will continue our work on behalf of our remaining member states in improving the accuracy of America's voter rolls and increasing access to voter registration for all eligible citizens," he added in a statement. Hamlin confirmed to NPR that ERIC had received the three states' requests for resignation. Just weeks ago, a January report from the Florida Department of State Office of Election Crimes and Security said it had "used data provided by ERIC to identify" hundreds of voters who appeared to have voted in Florida and in another ERIC member state in the same election. Ron DeSantis, said the voting organization didn't do enough to secure data privacy or "eliminate ERIC's partisan tendencies."
In a press release Monday, Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd, an appointee of Republican Gov. Politics Right-wing conspiracies have a new target: a tool that fights actual voter fraud The states announced in tandem Monday that they were beginning the process to pull out, after weeks of tense negotiations over potential changes the organization could make to appease GOP members who have been facing constituent pressure about ERIC, in part due to a sustained misinformation campaign from the far-right. " is a godsend," Paul Pate, the GOP secretary of state of Iowa, told NPR in an interview last month.īut state officials in Florida, Missouri and West Virginia have joined a growing number of Republicans who don't see it that way. The Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, is a multi-state partnership that experts across the political spectrum say is the only reliable, secure way for states to share voter registration data with each other.īut on Monday, three Republican-led states announced they are pulling out of ERIC - leaving questions about the future of a system that up until recently was a bipartisan success story, as well as questions about how these three states will maintain accurate voter lists without such a resource. Alaska is part of a bipartisan compact of more than 30 states that shares voting data. A sticker on a lamp post warns of voter fraud on Nov.
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