• Alabama's top elections official is withdrawing the state from a nonprofit known as ERIC.
• ERIC helps more than 30 states identify voters who may be registered in more than one jurisdiction.
• The group has been targeted by conspiracy theorists who falsely claim it is funded by George Soros.

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Spurred by misinformation and false claims about the billionaire philanthropist George Soros, the state of Alabama's top elections official this week announced he was pulling out of a group that helps prevent voter fraud, despite himself claiming the last presidential election was marred by it.

Since 2020, conspiracy theorists who maintain that the vote was rigged against former President Donald Trump have shifted from villain to villain, singling out everything from the makers of voting machines to the state of Italy. The Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, is the latest target.

Founded in 2012, ERIC began as a collaboration by election officials in seven states, four of them Republican. It collects data from motor vehicle departments and voter rolls from its members — now more than 30,...

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