Ohio on Friday announced it was the latest Republican-led state to pull out of a key election partnership that has become the focal point of conspiracies on the far-right.
ERIC is a multi-state partnership that experts across the political spectrum say is the only reliable, secure way for states to share voter data with each other. The coalition allows states to know when voters move or die, so they can keep their lists of registered voters more up to date.
The groundswell continued, and Ohio and other Republican states began pushing for changes to ERIC's membership agreement and bylaws, to lessen what member states would be required to do. One key desire was to no longer be required to reach out to eligible but unregistered voters, as ERIC's current governing documents mandate.
The ERIC board, which consists of representatives from every member state, met Friday to consider changes that LaRose, among other Republicans, had been demanding in recent months. None of the proposed changes regarding how the states use ERIC data passed, though the board did vote in favor of eliminating non-voting members from the organization.
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