{"id":2031534,"date":"2023-09-14T09:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T13:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-launches-insterstate-pacts-to-replace-leftist-voter-roll-management-group-eric\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T09:04:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T13:04:31","slug":"ohio-launches-insterstate-pacts-to-replace-leftist-voter-roll-management-group-eric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-launches-insterstate-pacts-to-replace-leftist-voter-roll-management-group-eric\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio forms interstate pacts to replace ERIC, a leftist voter-roll &#8216;management&#8217; group."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fohio-launches-insterstate-pacts-to-replace-leftist-voter-roll-management-group-eric%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=2031534&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--><div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n    <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Ohio Secretary of \u2062State Finalizes Agreements with\u2062 Three States to \u200bEnhance Election Integrity<\/h2>\n<p>Ohio Secretary \u2063of State Frank LaRose announced on Thursday\u200c that his\u200d office has \u200cfinalized \u2062agreements with three states to exchange critical voter data in an\u200b effort to bolster transparent and accurate elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOhio took \u200cthe lead \u2064on this \u2064election integrity project, and it\u2019s only one aspect of the work we\u2019re doing to keep our \u2064elections honest \u2064as we \u200dprepare for the \u200dnext presidential election\u2064 year,\u201d LaRose said in a statement. Ohio\u2019s new agreements are with Florida, \u200dVirginia, and West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>According to \u2064a LaRose press release, these arrangements permit each state to \u201cimplement \u200cstate-specific data sharing and security protocols to allow for the secure \u2064exchange of voter information, giving\u200c both states in [each individual] agreement the ability to\u2063 analyze records for evidence of cross-state voter fraud and duplicate voter \u2062registrations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These new interstate contracts \u2062appear\u200d to act as replacements \u2062for the Electronic Registration Information System (ERIC). <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/11\/democratic-operatives-control-voter-rolls-in-31-states-report-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ERIC<\/a> is a widely used voter-roll management group \u2064founded by \u2062Democrat activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/person\/david-becker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Becker<\/a> that was \u201csold\u200d to states as a\u2064 quick \u200dand easy way to update their voter rolls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In actuality, ERIC \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/11\/democratic-operatives-control-voter-rolls-in-31-states-report-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inflates voter rolls<\/a> by requiring member states to contact eligible but unregistered \u200bresidents and encourage them to register to vote. But\u2064 ERIC\u2019s membership \u2063agreement also places a higher priority on registering new voters than cleaning up\u200c existing voter rolls. As Victoria Marshall wrote in\u200c these\u2063 pages, ERIC mandates states engage \u2063in voter list maintenance \u201conly after [they have] independently validated\u201d the data they receive\u200b from the \u200dorganization. In other\u200d words, \u201cif a state does not independently validate \u200bthe ERIC data, it is not required to clean\u2064 its voter rolls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to an\u2062 ERIC board\u200d meeting earlier this year, LaRose <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/20\/ohio-iowa-withdraw-from-democrat-operative-controlled-voter-roll-maintenance-group-eric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sent a letter<\/a> to the organization threatening to withdraw Ohio from the group \u201cif the\u200d board did not remove Becker\u201d\u2064 \u2014 who at the time served as a non-voting board member \u2014 \u201cfrom its bylaws and cut the requirement \u2064for \u200bstates to \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-launches-insterstate-pacts-to-replace-leftist-voter-roll-management-group-eric\/\" title=\"Ohio forms interstate pacts to replace ERIC, a leftist voter-roll 'management' group.\">conduct partisan \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-democrat-operatives-control-voter-rolls-in-31-states\/\" title=\"Report: Democrat Operatives Control Voter Rolls in 31 States\">voter registration outreach<\/a><\/a>.\u201d While\u2064 Becker ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/15\/democrat-activist-to-resign-from-voter-roll-operation-after-pressure-from-gop-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stepped down<\/a> from his role, ERIC\u2019s board declined to \u2062approve LaRose\u2019s \u200bother proposals, prompting Ohio\u2019s departure from the\u200d organization.<\/p>\n<p>According to Amanda Grandjean, LaRose\u2019s senior adviser and \u2063the \u2063deputy\u2063 assistant secretary of state, Ohio\u2019s agreements with Florida, Virginia, and West Virginia came as the result of a 27-state working group that \u201cformed earlier this year in hopes of finding a more durable and accountable solution to cross-state data sharing that fit each state\u2019s individual \u2062needs.\u201d Grandjean\u200c indicated arrangements with additional states will be formalized\u2064 in\u2064 the \u200dfuture.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/21\/politicos-coverage-of-republican-states-ditching-a-leftist-voter-roll-operation-is-democrat-propaganda-not-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dismissing<\/a> Republican election officials\u2019 legitimate concerns about ERIC, legacy media \u2063have neglected \u2063to detail the organization\u2019s connection with another Becker-founded group known as the Center\u200c for Election Innovation and Research. \u2062Otherwise known as CEIR, this Becker-founded nonprofit was one \u200cof two left-wing \u2064groups that poured hundreds \u2063of millions of dollars from Meta \u2063CEO Mark \u2064Zuckerberg into local\u2064 election offices \u2063leading up to the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Those\u200c \u201cZuckbucks\u201d were then used to advance unsecured Democrat-backed voting\u2062 practices, such as mass, unsupervised\u200c mail-in voting and\u2062 the use of \u200dballot drop boxes. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/12\/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Analyses<\/a> have\u2063 shown \u2062these funds were heavily \u2062skewed toward Democrat municipalities,\u2063 especially in swing states, effectively making them a giant Democrat get-out-the-vote operation.<\/p>\n<p>But CEIR\u2019s election interference doesn\u2019t\u2063 stop there. As The Federalist\u2063 previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/15\/democrat-activist-to-resign-from-voter-roll-operation-after-pressure-from-gop-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, CEIR enjoys an \u2062active relationship with ERIC, which transmits the voter-roll data it receives from states\u200b to CEIR. Upon receiving the data, \u200dCEIR \u201cthen\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-operatives-control-voter-rolls-in-31-states-report-shows\/\" title=\"Democratic Operatives Control Voter Rolls In 31 States, Report Shows\">develops targeted mailing lists<\/a> and sends them back to the states\u2063 to use for voter registration outreach.\u201d In other words, CEIR \u2014 a highly partisan nonprofit with \u2064a history of\u200c left-wing activism \u2014 \u200dis creating lists of potential (and likely Democrat) voters for states to register in the \u200dlead-up to major \u200delections.<\/p>\n<p>In addition \u200bto\u2063 Ohio, other states that have withdrawn from ERIC in recent \u200bmonths include <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/24\/texas-announces-exit-from-leftist-controlled-voter-roll-management-group-eric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Texas<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/20\/ohio-iowa-withdraw-from-democrat-operative-controlled-voter-roll-maintenance-group-eric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Iowa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/12\/virginia-to-exit-leftist-controlled-voter-roll-maintenance-group-eric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Virginia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/06\/florida-missouri-and-west-virginia-withdraw-from-leftist-controlled-voter-roll-maintenance-group-eric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">West Virginia, \u200cFlorida, and Missouri<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/21\/alabama-withdraws-from-democrat-operative-controlled-voter-registration-database\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alabama<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.la.gov\/OurOffice\/PublishedDocuments\/FINAL%20VERSION-1.27.22%20ERIC%20PR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Louisiana<\/a> withdrew from the \u2062group\u2063 last year.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Shawn Fleetwood is a staff \u2062writer for The\u200b Federalist and a\u2062 graduate \u2064of the \u200bUniversity \u2062of Mary Washington.\u200b He previously served \u200cas a state content\u2064 writer for Convention of \u200cStates Action and\u2062 his work has been \u2062featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and \u2062Conservative Review. Follow him on\u2064 Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has secured agreements with three states to exchange voter data, enhancing election transparency. LaRose emphasized Ohio&#8217;s leadership in this project, highlighting their commitment to ensuring accurate elections. This initiative is just one part of their comprehensive efforts to safeguard the integrity of the electoral process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2031535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-2031534","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\/2031534","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}