{"id":2127758,"date":"2023-12-18T06:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T11:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-lie-about-this-leftist-linked-voter-roll-maintenance-group-to-protect-democrats-election-machine\/"},"modified":"2023-12-18T07:02:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:02:16","slug":"media-lie-about-this-leftist-linked-voter-roll-maintenance-group-to-protect-democrats-election-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-lie-about-this-leftist-linked-voter-roll-maintenance-group-to-protect-democrats-election-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Media distort truth about leftist-linked voter roll &#8216;maintenance&#8217; group to shield Democrats&#8217; election machine"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fmedia-lie-about-this-leftist-linked-voter-roll-maintenance-group-to-protect-democrats-election-machine%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=2127758&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 class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Leftists&#8217; Scheme to Inflate Voter Rolls Exposed<\/h2>\n<p>Over the past two weeks, regime-approved press outlets have run several\u2063 articles \u200crushing to\u2064 the defense of\u2063 leftists\u2019 latest scheme to inflate voter\u200d rolls with likely-Democrat voters: the Electronic Registration Information Center.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise known as <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>, this organization is a \u200bwidely used voter-roll \u201cmanagement\u201d system \u200cfounded \u200cby Democrat activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/person\/david-becker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Becker<\/a> that was \u201csold to states as a quick\u200d and easy way to update their voter rolls.\u201d\u200b In reality, ERIC\u2019s membership agreement places a higher priority on registering new \u2064voters than on cleaning\u200c up existing voter rolls.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The program inflates voter rolls\u00a0by requiring member \u200bstates to contact \u201celigible but unregistered\u201d residents to encourage them to register to vote. When\u2062 a state becomes an ERIC member, it is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/11\/democratic-operatives-control-voter-rolls-in-31-states-report-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">required<\/a> to submit \u201call active and\u200b inactive voter files,\u201d \u201call licensing or \u2064identification records\u2062 contained in the motor vehicles database,\u201d and any state files related to \u201cvoter registration functions\u201d to the organization, which\u2062 then compares this information with that submitted by other member states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s after this process that\u2062 ERIC compiles updated voter-roll information \u2014 including lists of voters who have\u2064 multiple registrations, moved, or \u2063died, and lists of \u201celigible but unregistered\u201d voters \u2014 and sends it to member states. As Victoria Marshall <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/11\/democratic-operatives-control-voter-rolls-in-31-states-report-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in these pages, ERIC mandates that states engage in voter\u200b list maintenance \u201conly after [they have] independently validated\u201d the data they receive from the organization. In other words, \u201cif a state does not independently validate \u2062the ERIC data, it is not \u2062required to clean its voter rolls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ERIC\u2019s ties to Becker \u2014 who has since <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\">resigned<\/a> from his role as\u2063 a nonvoting \u200cERIC board member \u2014 and its refusal to change its bylaws have prompted a\u2063 flurry of\u200d GOP election officials\u200c to withdraw their states from the organization within the past two years.\u200d Included in this <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/24\/texas-announces-exit-from-leftist-controlled-voter-roll-management-group-eric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">growing list<\/a> are\u2063 the states of\u200c Virginia,\u200d Florida, Ohio, Texas, and several others. Some of these \u200cjurisdictions, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elections.virginia.gov\/news-releases\/virginia-signs-agreements-with-six-states-as-part-of-improvements-to-accuracy-of-voter-list.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Virginia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/09\/14\/ohio-launches-insterstate-pacts-to-replace-leftist-voter-roll-management-group-eric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ohio<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/09\/19\/alabamas-new-voter-integrity-database-shows-states-dont-need-leftist-linked-eric-to-manage-voter-rolls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alabama<\/a>,\u200c have since formed separate \u2064interstate voter\u2062 data-sharing pacts to serve as an ERIC\u200d replacement.<\/p>\n<p>In light of ERIC\u2019s steady collapse, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.votebeat.org\/2023\/12\/13\/cleaning-voter-rolls-after-eric-election-security-voter-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Votebeat\u2019s<\/a> Jen Fifield and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/DNkkd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rolling \u2063Stone\u2019s<\/a> Adam Rawnsley and Asawin Suebsaeng\u2062 have painted these GOP officials \u2062as \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d and fomented Democrat \u200caccusations \u200cthat these states are struggling to \u2063effectively share and maintain \u2062accurate voter rolls. While handing out \u201cfar-right\u201d and \u201cMAGA\u200b Republican\u201d labels like candy \u2064on Halloween, these \u200d\u201creporters\u201d weave \u200da web of \u2062deception to obscure the organization\u2019s role in Democrats\u2019 \u200belection machine.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Both articles\u2019 writers, for example, attempt to pin the\u200c source of Republican\u2062 election officials\u2019 concerns with\u200c ERIC on a 2022 Gateway Pundit piece about the organization, which\u200b they quickly dismiss as riddled with \u201cconspiracy theories.\u201d \u200cOf course, nowhere in\u2064 their \u2062articles do these so-called \u201cjournalists\u201d bother to explore one of the \u2014 if not <em>the<\/em> \u2014 most alarming details \u200cabout ERIC: the group\u2019s ties to the Center for Election Innovation and Research (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/center-for-election-innovation-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CEIR<\/a>), a Becker-founded nonprofit responsible for interfering in the 2020 election to help Democrats.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CEIR and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/center-for-tech-and-civic-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center\u200c for\u200b Tech and Civic Life<\/a> collectively received hundreds \u200cof millions of dollars from Meta\u200c CEO Mark Zuckerberg leading up to the\u2063 2020 \u200dcontest. These \u201cZuckbucks\u201d were then poured into local election offices throughout the \u200dcountry\u2063 to push sloppy\u2064 Democrat-backed voting policies, such as\u2062 mass mail-in voting and the widespread use of ballot 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 shown\u2064 these grants were\u200c heavily skewed toward Democrat municipalities, especially in swing states, effectively making it\u2062 a giant Democrat get-out-the-vote operation.<\/p>\n<p>As \u200cThe Federalist 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> and\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.restorationofamerica.com\/restoration-news\/eric\/eric-the-best-data-money-ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">communication records<\/a> have indicated, CEIR\u200c enjoys a transactional relationship with ERIC, which sends the\u2064 voter-roll data it receives from states \u2064to \u200cCEIR. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/20\/gov-abbott-signs-bill-allowing-texas-to-withdraw-from-leftist-controlled-voter-roll-maintenance-group-eric\/\">Upon<\/a> receiving the data, CEIR \u201cthen <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 to use for voter \u2063registration outreach.\u201d In other words, CEIR \u2014 a highly partisan nonprofit with a history of left-wing activism \u2014 is creating lists of potential (and likely Democrat) voters for states to register in\u2062 the lead-up to major\u2064 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Convenient how that incredibly important detail didn\u2019t make it into the Votebeat and Rolling Stone articles, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Fifield then took things a step further \u2064by\u200b advancing the contrived narrative\u200c that\u200c Republican officials whose states left ERIC are having difficulty sharing \u200bvoter data with other states and ensuring accuracy \u2062within \u200ctheir voter rolls. She bases this claim\u2063 upon internal documents obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/american-oversight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Oversight<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-backed-group-storms-senate-office-building-demands-israeli-ceasefire\/\" title=\"Soros-funded group protests in Senate, calls for Israeli ceasefire\">left-wing nonprofit dedicated<\/a> to \u201cfiling open records requests targeting Republican interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Contrary\u2063 to Fifield\u2019s activist \u2063\u201creporting,\u201d several GOP secretaries of\u2062 state\u2063 whose jurisdictions have \u2063departed ERIC have publicly testified under\u2064 oath\u200c that they haven\u2019t experienced any issues\u2064 with managing their voter \u2064rolls since withdrawing from the organization. In October, Secretaries of State Frank LaRose of Ohio and Cord Byrd of Florida \u200dspoke before a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/CMS\/ArchiveDetails.cfm?SessYear=2023&#038;MeetingId=3272&#038;Code=41&#038;Chamber=S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pennsylvania Senate committee hearing<\/a> about their respective experiences with ERIC and maintaining accurate voter registration lists since departing the program.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he thought states \u2063can keep voter \u200brolls clean without ERIC, LaRose replied, \u201c100\u2064 percent,\u201d and went on to debunk Democrats\u2019 sky-is-falling talking points about what\u200b will happen if states withdraw from the organization.<\/p>\n<p>ERIC \u201chas only existed\u2062 for the\u200c last\u2064 10 or 12 years, and states have had this \u200dresponsibility for a long \u2064time to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawsuit-forces-los-angeles-county-to-remove-1-2-million-ineligible-voters-from-rolls\/\" title=\"Lawsuit Forces Los Angeles County To Remove 1.2 Million Ineligible Voters From Rolls\">maintain accurate voter rolls<\/a>,\u201d LaRose said. \u201cStates\u200b absolutely can maintain the accuracy of their voter rolls if they\u2019re intentional about it. And it\u2019s important to use all the \u2062different\u2062 tools \u200bat your disposal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LaRose went on to describe Ohio\u2019s various processes of removing \u2062deceased voters, noncitizens, and other ineligible voters from its voter registration lists. He also discussed the effectiveness of data-sharing pacts with other\u200d states and noted Ohio\u2019s \u2062intent to formulate these agreements with more states ahead of the 2024 \u200belection.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Byrd explained how interstate data-sharing agreements have allowed Florida to possess greater control over its voter\u200d data, saying, \u201cWe\u2062 know exactly what we\u2019re sharing with the other state [and] \u2064 they know what they\u2019re sharing with us.\u201d Byrd expressed hope \u200bthat \u201cthrough these different [memorandums of understanding] \u2063 \u2026 a consistent standard will be created\u201d when it \u2062comes to states exchanging voter\u2062 data.<\/p>\n<p>ERIC\u2019s role in the left\u2019s get-out-the-vote apparatus is bigger than\u2064 Democrats are willing to admit \u2014 and \u2063that\u2019s exactly why their regime-approved media allies will\u2062 never tell their readers the truth about it.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n <\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What is the tie between ERIC and the\u200d Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR)\u200c and how \u2063does\u200c it impact voter registration outreach?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Leftists&#8217; \u200dScheme to Inflate Voter Rolls\u200d Exposed<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, there has been a rush\u2064 by regime-approved\u2062 press outlets to defend \u2063the latest scheme by leftists to inflate voter rolls with \u200blikely-Democrat voters. This scheme revolves around the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a \u200bvoter-roll &#8220;management&#8221; system founded by Democrat activist David Becker. While ERIC was sold as a quick \u200dand easy way to update voter rolls, its true intentions have come to\u200c light.<\/p>\n<p>One of the ways \u200dERIC inflates voter rolls is by\u200c requiring member states to contact\u200b &#8220;eligible but unregistered&#8221; residents \u200band\u2063 encourage them to register to \u2064vote. \u2062When a state becomes an ERIC member, it is obliged to submit all active and inactive voter\u2063 files, licensing records,\u200d identification records, and any state files related to \u2062voter registration functions to the \u2064organization. ERIC then compares this information with that submitted by\u2063 other member states to compile updated voter-roll\u200c information.<\/p>\n<p>The problem\u2063 lies in the fact that ERIC&#8217;s membership agreement places a higher \u2063priority on registering new voters rather than cleaning up existing voter rolls. States are only required to engage in voter list maintenance \u200dif they independently validate the data they \u2062receive from ERIC. This loophole allows states to neglect their\u2063 responsibility to clean their voter rolls if they choose not to validate the data provided by ERIC.<\/p>\n<p>Due to ERIC&#8217;s ties to David Becker and its refusal to change\u200d its bylaws, \u200bmany GOP election officials have withdrawn their states \u200cfrom the organization in the past two\u2063 years. States like Virginia,\u2063 Florida, Ohio, Texas, and several others have formed separate interstate voter data-sharing pacts to serve as\u2063 replacements for ERIC.<\/p>\n<p>Despite\u200d ERIC&#8217;s steady \u2062collapse, \u200dcertain \u200dmedia outlets have resorted to labeling GOP officials as &#8220;conspiracy theorists.&#8221; These outlets,\u2064 such as Votebeat\u200b and Rolling Stone,\u2064 have attempted to downplay Republican \u200bconcerns about ERIC. They try to attribute these concerns to a 2022 \u200cGateway Pundit piece that they dismiss as riddled with conspiracy theories. However, these outlets conveniently ignore the\u2064 most \u200balarming detail about ERIC: its ties to the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), a nonprofit founded by Becker.<\/p>\n<p>CEIR, along with the Center for \u200bTech and Civic\u2064 Life, received hundreds of millions of dollars from Mark Zuckerberg leading up to the 2020 election. These funds were used to support Democrat-backed voting policies in local election offices across the country. Notably, these grants heavily favored Democrat municipalities and served as a significant get-out-the-vote operation for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, CEIR has a\u2063 transactional relationship with ERIC, as ERIC sends voter-roll\u200d data to CEIR, which then develops targeted mailing lists for voter registration outreach. This detail, crucial to understanding the\u200c scope of ERIC&#8217;s influence, is conveniently left out of articles by \u200cbiased outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, claims made by Votebeat&#8217;s Jen\u200b Fifield that Republican\u200b officials are struggling\u200c to share voter \u200cdata\u200b and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voter-rolls-group-gives-personal-data-to-politically-driven-organizations-report\/\" title=\"Report: Voter rolls group shares personal data with 'politically motivated' organizations\">maintain accurate\u2064 voter rolls<\/a> since withdrawing from ERIC\u2063 are\u2064 baseless. Multiple GOP secretaries of state have testified\u200b under oath that \u2063they haven&#8217;t encountered any issues with managing voter rolls after leaving ERIC.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme to inflate voter rolls through ERIC is a clear example of leftists&#8217; efforts to manipulate the electoral system. By prioritizing new registrations over cleaning up existing \u2064voter rolls and by conveniently neglecting key information in their reporting, left-leaning media outlets are \u2062complicit\u2063 in promoting this \u200ddeceptive agenda. It&#8217;s essential for the public to be aware of the facts and remain vigilant in protecting the\u2064 integrity of \u2063our electoral process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two weeks, regime-backed media has defended leftists&#8217; plan to boost voter rolls with likely-Democrat voters using the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). Founded by Democrat activist David Becker, ERIC is a popular voter-roll &#8220;management&#8221; system that states were convinced to adopt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2127759,"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-2127758","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\/2127758","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=2127758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2127759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}