ERIC is a little-known organization whose purpose is to coordinate voter registration information across states in order to improve the accuracy of voter rolls.
to member states’ voter rolls since its inception—and presumably prevented many potential opportunities for wrongdoing.
It would be hard to imagine a system that better reflects conservative priorities and principles of election administration than ERIC. For one, the organization maintains the primacy of states in matters of list maintenance as opposed to empowering the federal government through a national database. It also is a voluntary organization funded by dues from member states. Therefore, ERIC is neither an expansion of the federal government nor another unfunded mandate. Not to mention, ERIC is secure.
Nonetheless, five Republican-led states have now withdrawn from the compact citing concerns over the sharing of data. But the result of their actions will be to make it more costly to keep voter rolls accurate in these states—and in others.
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