The Secretary of State of Oregon is suing the state for allegedly destroying records from the Electronic Registration Information Center ( ERIC ) that show which voters were allegedly removed from the rolls inadvertently.
Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read, a Democrat, was charged in a lawsuit filed on January 28 by the Public Interest Legal Foundation for reportedly failing to keep data from ERIC that did show which voters the database had incorrectly marked as bereaved and marked for elimination.
ERIC, a membership-based electoral collection and community, has ties to the left, as The Federalist recently reported, but it supposedly helps says fresh their voter rolls through account. It has deemed useless voters as “eligible but unregulated” in the past.
PILF had been requesting “deceased corrections” accounts throughout 2023 and 2024, according to a media release. Peter sends these reports to member states, indicating voters that the database had been incorrectly identified as dead and in need of destruction.  ,
Oregon is a member of the system, so PILF requested “deceased corrections” studies in April 2024 from Democrat Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade. A worker denied this demand, saying officers do not keep the data.  ,
A public information researcher wrote in an message to PILF that” we receive the data regular, but we do not get or keep it.”
However, for the next two years, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 mandates that says keep” all records regarding the application of programs and activities” to ensure the reliability and money of official listings of eligible voters.
According to PILF’s complaint, Oregon does not keep the Edward Retraction Reports for two decades as the NVRA’s Public Disclosure Provision requires.
Since Read has since replaced Griffin-Valade, he is now the accused because PILF is suing the Oregon secretary of state in his standard power.
” The NVRA requires report protection and transparency”, said PILF President J. Christian Adams in the launch. The Biden Justice Department may have brought this situation, but rather private events have been clinging to national election laws.
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Since September, state officials have discovered that the “motor voting system” in the Oregon DMV has registered more than 300 noncitizens with the ballot since 2021 due to errors and oversights. Griffin-Valade and Democrat Gov. More than 1, 600 potential disqualified voters were discovered on the spins after Tina Kotek’s request for a few reviews of the problem.  ,
Officers came to the conclusion that Oregon DMV employees made mistakes in recording the forms of identification they provided, which caused the program to automatically record noncitizens to voting. As The Federalist recently reported, the Oregon DMV processed more than 54, 600 licenses for citizens of “unknown citizen” from June 2021 to October 2024.
Decades later, before Read took business, Oregon’s then-Elections Director Molly Woon and other major employees in Griffin-Valade’s department resigned.  ,
Leftist Ties
The DMV only found it helped register noncitizens to vote because the leftist group Institute for Responsive Government ( IRG ) inquired about the state’s “motor voter” system, according to The Oregonian/OregonLive.
The IRG is a task of The New Venture Fund, of the communist dark money system Arabella Advisors, according to InfluenceWatch. It issued” Zuckbucks”-style offers to local election offices away of November.
IRG Executive Director Sam Oliker-Friedland is general guidance for the left-wing Center for Secure and Modern Elections, even under Arabella’s New Venture Fund. According to messages obtained through an FOIA request from Oregon journalist Jeff Eager, state officials, including Woon, planned a presentation contact with the CSME after discovering that the “motor voter” method had registered noncitizens in Oregon.
Following the 2020 election, Louisiana’s solicitor general sued CSME and the Center for Tech and Civic Life— which are” carefully connected” according to InfluenceWatch — alleging improper intervention.  ,
David Becker, who is the director of another organization called the Center for Election Innovation and Research ( CEIR ), founded ERIC. In 2020, CEIR and the Center for Technology and Civic Life combined to send close to$ 400 million from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to local election offices, boosting Democrat turnout. Meanwhile, ERIC helps register the “new American majority” — changing the existing electorate, which Becker has disparaged as “disproportionately white, disproportionately wealthy and disproportionately old” . ,
The team author for election integrity is Logan Washburn. He is a The College Fix flower 2025 brother. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo’s journal associate, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan grew up in rural Michigan and is from Central Oregon.
