Ohio and Iowa have abruptly joined a parade of Republican-led states leaving a multistate voter roll program as right-wing media spread false information about the organization.
Frist.
When your fundamental election strategy is to make it hard or impossible for people to vote, you’re saying something about your intentions to respect your constituents. And it isn’t anything good.
Mighty weak tea for the party supposedly concerned about voter fraud to withdraw from an effort that makes it easier to identify those who do.
It would be helpful to know what the states that have left ERIC proposed.
If I understand correctly at least one of the functions of ERIC was that it made it easier to search for people who may have/be registered in two different states. And to track to see if they cast a ballot in only one.
All these departing states have done is make more work for their own county board of election people.
This makes it so much easier—and harder to track—when they purge Democrats from the voter rolls.
Last week, both Republican secretaries of state announced that they will leave the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a non-partisan program that’s been used by over 30 states to help clean up voter rolls for years.
If only these states would do something positive by leaving ALEC instead of ERIC.
My understanding is that most of the “reforms” to ERIC that these states have proposed involve allowing an “a la carte” approach to the information ERIC provides. In its current form, ERIC requires certain things of member states to prove they are using the data to appropriately clean voter rolls, and also requires them to do voter registration outreach to unregistered voters in their state. That last item seems to be one of the major objections these R states have. They already have a solidly Republican base of registered voters, so any outreach to unregistered voters is more likely to be outreach to potential Democrats.
A bit off topic (actually just more Republican nonsense) but:
So let’s all work together and give the Republican’s more help… please.
Two more rogue states that don’t want to track their own fascist citizens that voter more than once in other states basically.
Exactly. They want GOP voters to cheat, and they want to reduce actual oversight that will continue to show that what little vote fraud there is, is often undertaken by GOP voters.
Providing their registration rolls to a centralized outfit like that so that the rolls can be kept tidy has TWO effects:
It helps keep the rolls tidy by doing things like alerting people to potential duplicate registrations, etc.
AND
It helps prevent the red states who participate from fucking with their voter registration rolls in a way that might be noticed and alert people to shenanigans.
Make no mistake: they are withdrawing because they intend to engage in massive voter registration roll purges in 2024 and they do not want pesky centralized maintenance systems like this one interfering with their ability to do so, e.g., by showing that FL purged all sorts of people it claimed had dual registrations but that the claim was bogus because the centralized data clearly shows they had different middle initials or had moved to FL from the other state 2 years ago or whatever.
And oh goody…we’re now in a position where they get to cheat elections and we can’t riot over it or the bothsiderism and accusations of hypocrisy become true. So enjoy 2024…it’s the last year of The Republic We Couldn’t Keep.
Brought down by a woman’s emails no less…sigh…
And the fascist creep across Amerika rolls merrily along.
Right, that hot take is so true that if I look around in even a cursory manner, I won’t find Republicans scrambling like a kicked WASP nest at every end of the country and in every level of government trying to find a way to abuse power or otherwise interfere with the indictments. They’re all just sitting back on cloud-like pillows of confidence.
Where do these fucking morons come up with this shit?
Exactly, they will allow all from column (R) to vote and NONE from column (D)
Iowa Republicans DO NOT WANT IT TO BE EASY to catch them voting illegally at their vacation properties on Minnesota and Wisconsin lakes. Ohio Republicans don’t want to get busted voting illegally at wherever the heck rich Ohio Republicans’ vacation properties are.
Too bad the ERIC system doesn’t detect illegally declaring residency at one’s vacation property for the purpose of voting against the school bond referendum in the district you don’t live and your kids don’t suffer the consequence of your high school roof about to collapse under the weight of 40 degree rain and snow. Or for the purposes of illegally obtaining in-state college tuition, or evading child support obligations, or cheating one state out of Medicaid while hiding assets in the other.