Republican-led Florida, Missouri and West Virginia announced they're pulling out of the only system that U.S. states have to share voter registration data.
In a press release Monday, Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd, an appointee of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, said the voting organization didn't do enough to secure data privacy or"eliminate ERIC's partisan tendencies."from the Florida Department of State Office of Election Crimes and Security said it had"used data provided by ERIC to identify" hundreds of voters who appeared to have voted in Florida and in another ERIC member state in the same election.
Four of its founding seven state members were Republican-run, and its membership has slowly grown to includeacross the political spectrum, from the more liberal-minded Rhode Island and Washington, D.C., to the conservative South Carolina and Texas. "ERIC started with a question to election officials, which is: If you could fix one thing in elections that would make your job better, that would enable you to provide better services to voters, what would it be?" said David Becker, who helped found ERIC while he was working at the Pew Charitable Trusts a decade ago."Every single election official we asked ... said voter registration.
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