Right-wing conspiracies have a new target: a tool that fights actual voter fraud

[CousinIT]

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1076529761/right-wing-conspiracies-have-a-new-target-a-tool-that-fights-actual-voter-fraud

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The far right is now running a disinformation campaign against one of the best tools that states have to detect and prevent voter fraud.

And experts worry voting policy is already starting to suffer as a result.

A data-sharing revolution
The tool is a shared database called the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC for short. It allows states to securely share voter registration data across state lines and with a number of other government agencies, like the Social Security Administration and departments of motor vehicles.

That data-sharing allows participating states to expand ballot access by giving officials information that helps them reach out to eligible voters who have moved into the jurisdiction but have not yet registered to vote. But it also increases election security by notifying those same officials when a registered voter moves away or dies, allowing states to maintain more accurate voter rolls.

[abqtommy]

1. The far right are Fascists so let's label them accurately. Around the world and around

the town we've got to bring every one of them down.

[ck4829]

2. Their problem isn't voter fraud, it's people voting

If voter turnout approached 100%, then voter fraud would be easy to catch… but that would also mean Republicans would no longer be a feasible political party.

[lastlib]

3. repuglikans ARE no longer a viable political party....

They have NO interest in governing--only interest in gaining power and money, and using it to nurse their grievances. They are a cult, worshiping the Orange One who brought them power and packed the courts for them.