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Representative Seeks Funding To Reassess Voter-Registration Database After ERIC Concerns
Summary
Representative Lizenby told the appropriations subcommittee she is pursuing funding to study and select better tools for voter-roll maintenance after concerns about ERIC and evidence of duplicate entries; committee members asked about scope and prior payments to ERIC.
Representative Lizenby presented a request-for-appropriation to study and fund improved voter-registration list maintenance and a possible replacement for ERIC, the interstate database currently used for interstate voter roll comparisons.
Lizenby told the General Government Appropriations Subcommittee the state's current use of ERIC has produced problematic matches and false positives in other states. She said some states have left ERIC and implemented…
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