Texas is leaving a multi-state collaborative that crosschecks to make sure voters are not registered in more than one state.
in a letter on its website from Executive Director Shane Hamlin in March.
Alan Vera, who headed up the Harris County Republican Party's voter integrity effort, said ERIC has cost Texas $1.5 million, or $750,000 per year. Devvy Duke, who chairs the Texas Republican Party's election integrity efforts, also testified, saying the state had effectively outsourced the maintenance of the state's voter rolls, although ERIC says it provides reports that the individual state can then choose to use to adjust their rolls.
Terry Putnam, a retired NASA engineer from Williamson County, called ERIC one of the greatest intelligence gathering operations in the history of Texas. He questioned how widely that information was shared, then echoed a comment made by Duke. "What Senate Bill 1070 does, in effect, is it just removes Texas from what had been a supported nonpartisan voter registration compact and leaves open the question of where are we going to be getting this cross-state and interstate data afterwards?" Ehresman said.
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