There's no good reason for red states to abandon a national, bipartisan effort to prevent voter fraud. As stevebenen writes, thanks to conspiracy theorists, it's happening anyway.
explained, “The group is responsible for identifying out-of-date registrations on member states’ rolls, which typically includes voters who moved either within the state or to another member state, or voters who died out of the state they’re registered to vote in.”
For officials concerned about the integrity of the voter rolls — a group that includes quite a few Republicans in red states — the project seemed to have obvious value, and since 2012, 30 states signed on as ERIC members. Since the United States has never created a national voter registration clearinghouse, this voluntary, member-based project became the country’s biggest data-sharing program.Texas has nevertheless walked away, and it has plenty of company.
and used it to prosecute suspected illegal voters. The Florida Republican, before changing his mind, called the Sunshine State’s role in ERIC “the right thing to do.”the South Florida Sun Sentinel, “Any state that prioritizes politics over best practices and opts out of ERIC ahead of next year’s presidential election actually runs the risk of having outdated voter rolls. If states are interested in strengthening elections, withdrawing from ERIC does just the opposite.
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