As Republican-led states pull out of a multistate voter roll program in response to Gateway Pundit-pushed conspiracy theories about the organization, a conservative nonprofit was apparently also part of fanning the flames.
Fascists seek their ends in every diabolical way that they can imagine.
The false information is an excuse, not a cause. I guess there’s not enough value in a defamation action.
Reactionaries - they always have a response. Easy to be anti-something.
trumpet and lawsuits, like love and marriage. One follows the other so predictably. But Cohen made the huge mistake of thinking loyalty to fat boy was going to reap rewards. Fat boy’s a user and Cohen was just waiting for his turn to be used. He fancied himself a fixer. Ha! He was a dope waiting to be exploited by the most selfish man on the planet.
The League of Women Voters of Colorado hosted a program last night with David Becker and Major Garrett. Becker was very clear that the red states that are now bailing out of ERIC were reacting to far right wing misinformation.
A sampling from In Their Own Words: ERIC Improves Election Integrity:
"[ERIC] is one of the best fraud-fighting tools that we have when it comes to actually catching people that try to vote in multiple states, when it comes to maintaining the accuracy of our voter rolls by removing those that move out of state.” - Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R)
“I have heard strong support for joining ERIC from supervisors of elections all over Florida, and I am excited to provide them with one more tool to serve voters in Florida. Joining ERIC keeps Florida at the forefront of election security and will help us ensure a fair and accurate election in 2020 and beyond.” - Former Florida Secretary of State Laurel Lee (R)
GOPers hyperventilate about voter fraud and preserving the integrity of their voter rolls then undermine a state run system that gave them a valuable tool they needed.
I think (as some people have argued here) that a system that actually does things to protect voter rolls is the opposite of what republicans want. It hurts their jusitfication for passing more voting-suppression laws, and makes it harder for them to make false claims about elections being fraudulent.
They always want to be chasing the car, never catching it.
That was one of Becker’s points. You must have been listening to last night’s presentation. 
ERIC makes it tougher for Republicans to cheat so clearly it must go.
With Republicans, every accusation is a confession.
Someone needs to come out and say it, Republican claims of voter fraud have nothing to do with actual voter fraud and everything to do with suppressing votes to win elections.
Plain & simple - we are seeing the handiwork of blatant Anti-Democracy Fascist Right wing zealots … unhinged totalatrians who recognize that they (a minority voting segment) cannot be in total control when the majority votes - so if they can’t erase Blacks, women, Hispanics, Asians, LGBTQ, Jews from the voting rolls they will attack the voting system and smear it as being hopelessly corrupt & “fixed”…
Classic stuff. Like Roger Stone, these were the guys at boarding school/Ivy League from poorer families, willing to carry any water and even more vociferously classist than their superiors. Handy for the dirty work since time immemorial.
The problem with ERIC is it keeps catching people who vote Republican. What they really want is a system that flags blacks and hispanics. No doubt someone is putting together a system to do just that. Probably modeled on the database they put together in Texas.
Or the earlier one in Florida. It’s particularly effective, IIRC, if you mash together all possible spellings of common first and last “foreign” names (because, after all, “those people” can’t spell too good) and ignore differing dates of birth (because reasons). Oh, and bonus points if you address the notification of removal from the rolls to a “matched” name corresponding to a different state.
We should probably adjust out thinking on this. If you’ve been attention to politics over the last 20 you must know that claiming something is broken that is in fact not broken is the MO of the GOP at all levels of government. It’s done to justify fixing the unbroken policy which just so happens to entail making it toe right wing wishes. Voter fraud is an example. Voting is not broken in the USA but the GOP’s been claiming it is and therefore has to be fixed in ways that just so happen to improve their chances of winning.
CRT ( nonexistent ) necessitates a public education fix which just so happens to entails pushing elementary school curricula to the right. Fixing “grooming” just so happens to entail gay / trans bashing like the good ole days. ETC.
Nothing wrong with ERIC but states that want to juke elections cannot have strings out of their control attached to the voting in their states. ERIC is such a thing. If you feel the need to jack with voter registration in your state you can’t have eye’s above yours looking at you. So? Soros and it needs to be fixed.
None of these states felt ERIC was a bad thing. It was the fact that it was a good thing that irked them. It was in the way of future “plans” so it had to go. And here we go again.
Last year a half dozen or so geezers in The Villages of Florida were caught voting here and their former states. All voted twice for Trump so the mess was hushed and as far as I know none of them suffered the fate of the Black ex felons that voted ONCE only in Florida after being told that was OK.
How did the geezers get caught? Don’t know but catching folks like that is ERIC’s purpose.