If Texas leaves national voter fraud prevention group, what next? | Opinion
Texas Secretary of State Jane NelsonTexas’ likely withdrawal from a nationwide consortium designed to clean up voter rolls while boosting public participation in elections could be a setback for democracy in the state.
and damaged public trust. At the time, the secretary of state’s office sent a list of potential noncitizen voters to counties. That list used bad data that mistakenly flagged tens of thousands of people who were actually citizens. But the state told counties to figure out on their own the citizenship status of people on the list.
About 30 states and the District of Columbia are members of ERIC. Since its inception in 2012, the nonprofit has cross-matched states’ voter records, motor vehicle data, death certificates and other information to help member states purge millions of ineligible voters from rolls. It has also identified millions more who were eligible to vote but not yet registered.
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