Texas Republicans say they want to replace ERIC with their own program, but it’s...
Shane Hamlin, the executive director of ERIC,hoping to combat those narratives. He said the organization uses “widely accepted security protocols for handling the data we utilize to create the reports.”
“States leaving ERIC and creating their own independent registration system increases the potential for election fraud,” Katya Ehresman, the voting rights program manager at Common Cause Texas,last week. “The GOP and conservatives for years demanded the kind of results ERIC has produced, and states withdrawing from the compact undercut efforts to keep voter rolls clean and prevent illegal voting.”
The Texas Legislature allocates $1.5 million a year to participate in ERIC. The state paid $25,000 to join in 2020, and annual membership fees — calculated using population figures — amounted to roughly $75,000 at the time, a spokesman for the secretary of state’s office said. State Rep. Jacey Jetton, a Fort Bend Republican who authored HB 2809, said the high costs are his primary concern. As it stands now, the initiative “just does not give enough return on investment for the state,” he said.
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