A class fighting for election integrity has requested from the Department of Justice of President Donald Trump to look into the alleged abuse of information by the Oregon secretary of state.
According to The Federalist, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read, a Democrat, was sued last month for allegedly destroying records from the Electronic Registration Information Center ( ERIC ) that indicated which voters had been erroneously removed from the rolls. Leo Terrell, Trump’s top counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, was the subject of a problem PILF sent to PILF on Thursday.  ,
In the complaint he shared with The Federalist, Logan Churchwell, PILF’s research director, wrote that” Oregon officials do not retain monthly alerts from the Electronic Registration Information Center ( ‘ERIC’ ) relating to registrants who were previously and inaccurately flagged as deceased.
Peter is a voter registration database that allegedly assists member states in cleaning their voter lists, but it also has strong left-wing relationships, as The Federalist has previously reported. In Virginia, the party labeled dying citizens “eligible but unlicensed”.
Peter problems “deceased corrections” information to member state, listing voters the collection wrongfully flagged as dead, according to a media release from PILF. The legal team has been requesting “deceased corrections” reports” throughout 2023 and 2024″ . ,
But in flower 2024, when Churchwell asked the Oregon secretary of state’s office for “deceased misstatements” reports from ERIC, a public records scientist said that, though the company receives the reports monthly,” We do not get and keep the data”.
However, the 1993 National Voter Registration Act mandates that states keep” all records regarding the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters” for two years. Election officials are also required to “retain and preserve” voter roll maintenance documents for 22 months and produce them “upon demand” under the Civil Rights Act of 1960.
So far, PILF has collected “deceased retractions” reports — some going back to 2013 — from seven ERIC member states without any legal action. The files include names, registration dates, and “unique voter ID numbers” . ,
ERIC Executive Director Shane Hamlin told all member states on Nov. 7, 2023, that “deceased retractions could potentially be shielded under state laws” from PILF’s record requests, according to the complaint.
From PILF’s latest data, 55 percent of registrants that ERIC erroneously categorized as deceased were already removed from voter rolls before “deceased retractions” reports went out, Churchwell wrote in the complaint. So, the “deceased retractions” reports help indicate “registrants who were removed improperly based on ERIC data” . ,
The Foundation believes that a federal investigation under this particular statutory lens, in light of the above-mentioned facts and analysis, is warranted, according to the complaint, which makes reference to the legal requirement for document retention.
PILF was “appreciative of the speedy confirmation of receipt by the Voting Section” of the DOJ, Churchwell told The Federalist.
” It’s important that we are able to study patterns between ERIC’s Deceased Reports, Oregon’s reliance upon them, and the elapsed time before a Retraction”, Churchwell said. ” Everyone is at risk of misinformation from misusing public records.”
According to InfluenceWatch, ERIC’s founder is “hardcore leftist” David Becker— who also founded the Center for Election Innovation and Research ( CEIR ), which funneled millions in” Zuckbucks” to election officials in 2020 to boost Democrat turnout.  ,
In September, Oregon officials found the state DMV’s “motor voter system” had registered more than 300 noncitizens to vote since 2021. Democrat Gov. Tina Kotek and then-Secretary of State Lavonne Griffin-Valade ordered limited audits of the issue, finding more than 1, 500 potentially ineligible registered voters. As The Federalist previously reported, between June 2021 and October 2024, the Oregon DMV processed more than 54, 600 registrations for voters of “unknown citizenship“.
The staff writer for election integrity is Logan Washburn. He is a The College Fix spring 2025 fellow. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo’s editorial assistant, 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.
