Georgia and Utah could become the next Republican-led states to leave the leftist-linked voter roll maintenance group known as ERIC if bills mandating their respective withdrawals are passed into law.
On Tuesday, Republicans on a Georgia House elections subcommittee passed legislation in a party-line vote that seeks to prohibit the Georgia secretary of state and state entities from “joining or participating in any multistate voter list maintenance organization” that fits specific criteria outlined in the bill. Under HB 215, Georgia would be required to pull out of a nongovernmental voter list maintenance group that mandates “or encourages the contacting of individuals who are not currently registered to vote with the intent to register them to vote” or “[s]hares voter data outside of the explicit purpose of removing deceased, duplicate, or otherwise ineligible voters from the list of electors.”
Existing contracts that meet one or both of these provisions would have to be terminated within 90 days of the law’s enactment.
HB 215 will now be considered by the House Governmental Affairs Committee, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
If ultimately signed into law, the proposal would effectively end the Peach State’s agreement with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). […]
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