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Commissioners press Office of Elections on ERIC, BallotTrax and daily envelope logs
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Summary
Commissioners questioned Chief Elections Officer Scott Nago about ERIC enrollment, whether ERIC's matching is auditable, and limits of BallotTrax logs; Nago said ERIC flags potential out-of-state moves but the clerk must follow up, and BallotTrax provides voter notifications but not date-specific exportable daily logs.
Commissioners inquired in detail about the state's participation in ERIC (Electronic Registration Information Center) and about voter-notification and ballot-tracking tools during the Office of Elections' report and the question-and-answer period.
Scott Nago said ERIC is a membership cooperative that provides notices when a registered voter appears in another ERIC-member state's database. "ERIC is a coalition of ... states," Nago told commissioners; ERIC flags potential moves but does not itself remove voters — clerks must follow up and comply with the National Voter Registration Act before removing registrations.
Commissioners pressed whether ERIC's matching algorithm is auditable and for quantitative false-positive rates. Nago said jurisdictions still rely on follow-up mailings and the NVRA process; he did not supply a specific false-positive rate and said the state would follow the established removal process.
On BallotTrax (notification to voters on ballot status), Nago said the tool provides confirmations and cumulative totals but cannot reliably export daily time-stamped logs by date for earlier election cycles; commissioners had requested daily logs to reconcile returned envelopes and noticed only summary reports had been provided. "BallotTrax doesn't do it by date; it only does it cumulative," Nago said.
Commissioners said daily, auditable counts are necessary to close gaps between hand counts, county drop-box logs, and SVRS entries. Nago said the SVRS is cumulative and the office is working with counties to produce daily receipt numbers for 2026.
Why it matters: Commissioners described the requests as essential to establishing an auditable chain of custody and to answering public concerns about unexplained changes in counts documented between collection and electronic entry.
