Michael Adams likes the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).
But many other GOP-aligned states don’t, often on a conspiratorial or shaky factual basis. That’s leading Adams to seek options for leaving the bipartisan group that experts say is a vital resource for states to exchange voter data and combat voter fraud.
The organization helps agencies across the country remove dead voters from their rolls, correct addresses, and to reach out to eligible voters that aren’t registered, among other things.
Several Republican states across the country have pulled out of ERIC following false reports from a far-right conspiracy website and the urging of former Republican president Donald Trump. Some conservatives claim the organization is a voter registration vehicle for Democrats, has strong ties to Democratic billionaire donor George Soros, and Trump himself claimed that the organization “pumps the rolls” for Democrats – none of these claims are true.
Adams himself pushed back against these assertions, repeated by his opponents in a primary race this year that he won by more than 37 percentage points. However, with eight GOP-led states having already pulled out of the program, a motion Adams’ office filed in federal court last week indicates that Kentucky could be next.
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