Posted on May 12, 2023
Virginia becomes the latest GOP-governed state to quit a voter data partnership
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Virginia on Thursday became the latest Republican-led state to withdraw from a multistate partnership that until early 2022 was considered a widely trusted, bipartisan effort to share voter information.
The move makes Virginia the eighth state to leave the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, amid fringe conservative media reports and conspiracy theories attempting to connect the group to liberal donors and activists.
Virginia's departure is notable because the state was a founding member of the compact in 2012, under former GOP Gov. Bob McDonnell.
As recently as three months ago, Republican voting officials in other states that have since pulled out were praising it as a "godsend" and "one of the best fraud-fighting tools we've got."
Virginia on Thursday became the latest Republican-led state to withdraw from a multistate partnership that until early 2022 was considered a widely trusted, bipartisan effort to share voter information.
The move makes Virginia the eighth state to leave the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, amid fringe conservative media reports and conspiracy theories attempting to connect the group to liberal donors and activists.
Virginia's departure is notable because the state was a founding member of the compact in 2012, under former GOP Gov. Bob McDonnell.
As recently as three months ago, Republican voting officials in other states that have since pulled out were praising it as a "godsend" and "one of the best fraud-fighting tools we've got."
Virginia becomes the latest GOP-governed state to quit a voter data partnership
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Maj Kim Patterson No it's a Game, the Only "Real" Tool to address voting in Multiple States, Dead People Voting all the Republican Boogey Men. Now the Republicans will say "There is No Real Way to Tell" so You Know that Last Election we lost, It was Illegitimate, Rigged, Dead People Voting, People in Other States Voting in Ours. 21 Years as a Spook, I Understand How Some People Play Games!
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