Alaska’s Election Integrity Lawsuit, seeking ERIC voter data, has been approved by a judge despite the Lt. Gov.’s attempt to halt it.

Legal Group’s Lawsuit to Obtain Alaska’s ERIC Data Reports May Proceed

A district court ruled last week that a legal group’s lawsuit to obtain Alaska’s ERIC data reports about “potentially deceased registrants on the state’s voter rolls” may proceed.

As The Federalist previously reported, the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, is a widely used voter-roll management organization founded by Democrat activist David Becker that was “sold to states as a quick and easy way to update their voter rolls.” In actuality, ERIC inflates voter rolls by requiring member states to contact eligible but unregistered residents to register to vote.

In their lawsuit against Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) is alleging that “ERIC reports are ‘records’ subject to the disclosure provision of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).” Under the NVRA, states are required to make “available for public inspection, for a period of at least two years, all records concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters.”

• Documents revealing the identity of the government agency through which any particular registrant was registered
• Those showing an individual declined to register to vote

In August 2021, PILF submitted a request to the Alaska Division of Elections for ERIC data from 2019-2021 “concerning registered voters identified as deceased or potentially deceased” and reports “showing all registrants removed from the list of eligible voters for reason of death” for those same years. While the division provided some of the requested information in September 2021, it denied the first request, arguing, as the court described, that “the source of [that] data is the Social Security Master Death File and that federal law permits disclosure only to certified entities.”

This prompted PILF to send a letter contesting