Right-Wing Activists Are Pushing States to Use Their Voter Roll Purging Software

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Right-Wing Activists Are Pushing States to Use Their Voter Roll Purging Software
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Voters head into a polling location to cast their ballots on the last day of early voting for the 2024 election on November 1, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia.. The aim of her legal challenge is to force the state to sever its ties with a formerly obscure nonpartisan entity: a multistate information sharing partnership known as the Electronic Registration Information Center .

ERIC was until fairly recently an uncontroversial, widely lauded and bipartisan tool, common if not ubiquitous, sharing information between more than 30 states. However, in the last few years, a relentless smear campaign has spurred several states to abandon the system. Right-wing groups have found an effective wedge point to intervene at an essentially benign structural mechanism in the nation’s democratic architecture.

“The same people involved in sowing distrust in U.S. elections were also working behind the scenes to influence the multistate exodus from ERIC.”

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