“Non-partisan, data-driven, objective tool for testing, auditing and maintaining the validity of voter registrations” is a description suited well for the Election Registration Information Center (ERIC), the more than a decade-old state membership organization that aims to ensure accurate voter rolls, increase voter registration and deter illegal voting.
But that description doesn’t come from ERIC, nor is it referring to the well-established voter roll organization. Rather, that’s how a little-known Republican-backed group, EagleAI, describes its amateur computer program in a leaked internal document.
The software, called EagleAI NETwork, is one of the right’s leading replacements for ERIC, which has come under conspiracy-laden fire from the nine Republican states that have left the organization since early 2022. Featuring a comprehensive database full of information about voters, EagleAI claims that the program quickly combs through data and flags supposedly suspicious voter registrations. Activists can then review the flagged names and report them to election officials.
EagleAI was founded in July 2022 and developed by Rick Richards, a former Georgia physician, and his son, John Richards. Neither have election experience according to the liberal investigative group Documented, which reported extensively on the existence of the program in conjunction...
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