If costs mandating their respective transactions are passed into law, Georgia and Utah could become the second Republican-led says to keep the leftist-linked voting move repair group known as ERIC.
In a party-line vote on Tuesday, Republicans on a Georgia House elections committee approved legislation that would prevent the Georgia secretary of state and state organizations from” joining or participating in any multistate voting record repair business” that met specific requirements outlined in the bill. In accordance with HB 215, Georgia would be required to renounce its membership in a nongovernmental voter list maintenance organization that requires “or encourages the contacting of individuals who are not currently registered to vote with the intention of registering them to vote” or” [s ] hares ] voter data other than the explicit purpose of removing deceased, duplicate, or otherwise ineligible voters from the list of electors.”
Existing deals that comply with one or both of these conditions would have to be terminated within 90 days of the government’s passage.
HB 215 will now be considered by the House Governmental Affairs Committee, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The proposal would effectively end the Peach State’s agreement with the Electronic Registration Information Center ( ERIC ) if it were to be eventually passed into law.
As The Federalist previously , reported, ERIC was founded by Democrat activist , David Becker , and” sold to state as a quick and easy way to release their voting floats”. In nature, the party  , inflates vote rolls , by requiring associate states to call entitled but unregistered citizens to register to vote.
ERIC also , reportedly , shares voter roll information with the Center for Election Innovation and Research ( CEIR ), another Becker-founded group known for its” Zuckbucks” interference in the 2020 election. The information that the two left-wing organizations share is effectively used to create lists of potential ( and likely Democrat ) voter lists in the run-up to elections.
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In recent years, several GOP-led claims have withdrawn from ERIC due to concerns about the party’s left-wing connections and its refusal to change its rules.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has defended maintaining his country’s relationship with ERIC despite these escapes. The Republican primaries key stated in 2023 that” techniques like ERIC… help stop people from being registered in and trying to vote in several states.”
Investigative study by Mark Davis, a voter data expert and chairman of Data Productions, Inc., but, calls into question the reliability of the Peach State’s voter rolls.
But Georgia isn’t the only Republican-led state that could potentially leave ERIC.
A provision that requires the lieutenant governor to resign from ERIC was approved by the GOP-controlled House on Friday in Utah. The Utah lieutenant governor is the official tasked with overseeing the Beehive State’s electoral process, in contrast to most states, where elections are overseen by a secretary of state or elections board.
Much like Georgia, Utah’s elections chief, Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, has also defended her state’s agreement with ERIC. The Utah Republican even went as far as to accuse Americans who are concerned about the organization’s partisan ties of being so-called “election deniers.”
“ERIC has become a favorite boogeyman of the radical election deniers”, Henderson wrote in an April 2024 X thread. However, their claims are not supported by actual evidence, and their demands are contrary to their rhetoric.
HB 332 will now head to the Utah Senate for consideration.
Shawn Fleetwood is a graduate of the University of Mary Washington and a staff writer for The Federalist. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClear Health, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
