{"id":1747137,"date":"2022-11-21T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747137"},"modified":"2022-11-21T15:02:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:02:30","slug":"alabama-withdraws-from-democrat-operative-controlled-voter-registration-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alabama-withdraws-from-democrat-operative-controlled-voter-registration-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Withdraws From Democrat Operative-Controlled Voter Registration Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falabama-withdraws-from-democrat-operative-controlled-voter-registration-database%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747137&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Alabama\u2019s Secretary of State-elect Wes Allen has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2022\/11\/secretary-of-state-elect-wes-allen-withdrawing-alabama-from-multi-state-voter-information-center.html?fbclid=IwAR2zuwpwceoPQyMqfmgZlgSpYJ2e76CcrAGDHXm_ciwdf7T65olAccF8a2Q&#038;fs=e&#038;s=cl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> that he will withdraw the state from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a voter-roll management system with politically compromised ties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made a promise that I would withdraw Alabama from ERIC and I am keeping that promise,\u201d Allen said in a statement. \u201cI have informed them, via certified letter, that upon my inauguration on January 16, 2023, Alabama will immediately and permanently cease to transmit any information regarding any citizen in the State of Alabama to their organization and that we will no longer participate in any aspect of the ERIC program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/11\/democratic-operatives-control-voter-rolls-in-31-states-report-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, ERIC is a voter-roll management organization used by 33 states which ostensibly exists to identify duplicate or deceased registrants (by cross-referencing states\u2019 voter and DMV records) and thereby \u201cclean\u201d state voter rolls. Alabama joined ERIC in 2015 and currently pays about $25,000 a year for its membership.<\/p>\n<p>However, member states may not realize ERIC was started by far-left political activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/person\/david-becker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Becker<\/a>, who has dedicated his life to <a href=\"https:\/\/legalnewsline.com\/stories\/555822683-mark-zuckerberg-beneficiaries-promoting-fair-elections-not-exactly-non-partisan-as-advertised\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attacking conservatives<\/a> and advancing left-wing policies. Becker also started the Center for Election Innovation and Research (<a href=\"https:\/\/electioninnovation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CEIR<\/a>), one of two leftist groups that funneled $419 million in grants from Mark Zuckerberg to mostly blue counties of swing states, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/13\/mark-zuckerberg-spent-419m-on-nonprofits-ahead-of-2020-election-and-got-out-the-dem-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funding Democratic get-out-the-vote operations from government election offices in 2020<\/a>. ERIC shares voter roll data \u2013 including records of unregistered citizens \u2013 with CEIR, which then reportedly creates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/the-lefts-taxpayer-funded-voter-registration-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">targeted mailing lists for unregistered but likely Democrat voters<\/a> and sends them back to the states for voter registration outreach. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, per government watchdog <a href=\"https:\/\/verityvote.us\/eric-sharing-data-with-zuckerburg-funded-ngo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Verity Vote<\/a>, ERIC doesn\u2019t actually clean states\u2019 voter rolls, but rather inflates them. Though member states are allegedly required to clean their voter rolls, nothing happens. A March 2022 audit by Michigan\u2019s auditor general found the state\u2019s Bureau of Elections\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/audgen.michigan.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/r231023521-4999.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">failed to sufficiently clean its voter rolls<\/a>, though Michigan had joined ERIC in 2019. Likewise, the District of Columbia (another ERIC member) has also been <a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1-Complaint-DC-ERIC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sued<\/a> for its failure to clean its rolls. <\/p>\n<p>While Alabama\u2019s outgoing secretary of state, John Merrill, has repeatedly signaled his support for ERIC, Allen campaigned on removing the state from the system. Instead of relying on ERIC to clean Alabama\u2019s voter rolls, Allen plans on using change-of-address information from the United States Postal Service, driver\u2019s license records from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, and death records from the Alabama Department of Public Health to maintain accurate rolls.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama is the second ERIC member state to withdraw from the pact. Louisiana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.la.gov\/OurOffice\/PublishedDocuments\/FINAL%20VERSION-1.27.22%20ERIC%20PR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suspended its participation<\/a> in January over similar concerns. <\/p>\n<p> Victoria Marshall is a staff writer at The Federalist. Her writing has been featured in the New York Post, National Review, and Townhall. She graduated from Hillsdale College in May 2021 with a major in politics and a minor in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @vemrshll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama\u2019s Secretary of State-elect Wes Allen has announced that he will withdraw the state from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a voter-roll management system with politically compromised ties. \u201cI made a promise that I would withdraw Alabama from ERIC and I am keeping that promise,\u201d Allen said in a statement. \u201cI have informed them, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":1747140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1747140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}