Voter fraud has become a calling card for Republicans, a party whose voters by and large falsely think elections in the U.S. are tainted.
Which is what makes a currently blossoming election conspiracy so strange: The far right is now running a disinformation campaign against one of the best tools that states have to detect and prevent voter fraud.A data-sharing revolution, or ERIC for short. It allows states to securely share voter registration data across state lines and with a number of other government agencies, like the Social Security Administration and departments of motor vehicles.
The decade-old program now includes more than 30 states spanning the political spectrum, from Republican-led places like Alabama and South Carolina to more liberal states like Connecticut and Oregon. And it's helped states remove more than 500,000 dead people from voter rolls since its founding, according toBut that bipartisan unity is being tested, as some pockets of conservative media have ignited a pressure campaign against ERIC.On Jan.
Other Republican election officials told NPR the far-right misinformation campaign is reverberating in their states, too.
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