Current Events > Red States Leaving ERIC-Electronic Registration Info Center over Conspiracies

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https://www.npr.org/2023/05/11/1175662382/virginia-eric-withdrawal

Virginia on Thursday became the latest Republican-led state to withdraw from a multistate partnership that until early 2022 was considered a widely trusted, bipartisan effort to share voter information. The move makes Virginia the eighth state to leave the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, amid fringe conservative media reports and conspiracy theories attempting to connect the group to liberal donors and activists.

Virginia's departure is notable because the state was a founding member of the compact in 2012, under former GOP Gov. Bob McDonnell. As recently as three months ago, Republican voting officials in other states that have since pulled out were praising it as a "godsend" and "one of the best fraud-fighting tools we've got."

But in a letter obtained by member station VPM, Virginia's commissioner of elections, Susan Beals, said a slew of concerns caused her to rethink the state's membership. She cited the recent exit of nearby states, "increasing concerns regarding stewardship, maintenance, privacy, and confidentiality of voter information" and "controversy surrounding the historical sharing of data with outside organizations leveraged for political purposes."

Florida
Alabama
Virginia
Mississippi
Missouri
West Virginia
Iowa
Ohio

The blog Gateway Pundit has falsely claimed George Soros funds ERIC and Red States are taking the bait. Maga voters believe in voter irregularities but want no way to track any. Continuing the trend for Repugs if you can't win rig it.

Backwards ass shitholes.

name_unknown posted...

Florida
Alabama
Virginia
Mississippi
Missouri
West Virginia
Iowa
Ohio

Still waiting for America to exile these traitors like they always wanted.

Jagr_68 posted...

Still waiting for America to exile these traitors like they always wanted.

Texas has said to join the list at some point in leaving.

If they were truly concerned with 'ballot integrity' - which sounds ominously like the 'ballot purity' of Jim Crow - this shit wouldn't be happening.

A month or two ago, I heard an NPR story about this movement. ERIC is the interstate system that can detect people registered to vote in more than one state. States that leave the system have no way to discover that kind of fraud AND weaken the system for the states still using it.