Come 2024, voters in these states will face long queues at polls and more trouble with mail-in ballots
The Electronic Registration Information Centre , with which they cut ties, is a coalition that helps election officials sustain accurate voter rolls and identify fraud. It does so by comparing voter data across member states to a “death master file” from the Social Security Administration and driver-licence records. Since its inception in 2012,has spotted 1m duplicate voters and taken over 570,000 dead people off the rolls.
One week later, over concerns of “questionable funding sources” and “possible partisan actors”, Louisiana became the first to pull out of. In January, Alabama’s newly-elected secretary of state also cut ties. A February board meeting, during which member states refused to adopt proposed bylaw amendments, was the catalyst for three more states to defect this week.
The leavers object to the involvement of the only non-voting board member, David Becker, a former Department of Justice official who founded. But claims of his liberal bias fall flat: his most notable case was against Georgia Democrats for gerrymandering and his non-profit, which gave $65m to states for non-partisan election education, is run by experts from both parties. The data-security concerns they raised were not serious enough to persuade the majority of member states to vote for change.
“This is all an effort to create more chaos, to weaken the guardrails of democracy and allow for losing candidates to spread more lies,” says Mr Becker. States that defect hurt themselves most. Unorderly voter rolls make for delays. Come 2024, voters in these states will face lengthy lines at polls and more trouble with mail-in ballots. Confusion and longer waits for results will only incite more mistrust.. Alabama and Missouri plan to craft new systems to clean voter rolls.
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