by Kat Stansell, American Policy Center, ©2023
(Feb. 3, 2023) — While many “red” states are in the process of resigning from ERIC in the battle against voter fraud, Tallahassee has decided they love it.
ERIC was set up in 2012 by a Soros grant, and sold as a voter roll maintenance system. Instead it has proven to be an artificial intelligence gathering system and left-wing voter registration program, associated with blatantly inaccurate voter rolls in its member states. As of 2020, 50% if its members had voter rolls well in excess of 100% of the number of all possible citizens of voting age in the state, according to the US Election Assistance Commission.
ERIC specializes in creating voter rolls that are statistical impossibilities, and adding millions with questionable credentials to the rolls.
In the case of Florida, the state’s voter rolls were at 101.6% of all possible citizens of voting age. Not something to love, I might think, if concerned by election integrity.
Rick Scott, who was governor before DeSantis, refused to join ERIC because he saw it primarily as a data-gathering system, with no real program for roll maintenance. Nowhere in its bylaws or membership mandates does ERIC give its members a plan or system to clean rolls. Scott was unwilling to turn over all of his citizens’ information to the federal government to be used and stored however the system chose. According to membership regulations, the member states have no access to their own information once turned over to ERIC’s AI data base. DeSantis joined Florida to ERIC in 2020.
Louisiana and Alabama recently withdrew from membership, and several more states are in the process.
As you know, if you have been following this story, election integrity activists led by the Florida Republican Assembly and The People’s Audit, had already discovered thousands of bad addresses and fraudulently voted ballots, before the 2022 midterms, and had proven how this happened. There findings were reported to Tallahassee.
There had been no response from the governor, even in light of the creation of his highly advertised “Election Crimes” division.
In Jan., 2023, Florida activists presented Tallahassee with more data about the numbers of invalid addresses on the state rolls. Five hundred twenty-one thousand, three hundred sixty bad addresses in total were found in county after county. The ERIC system was questioned. In a meeting with Cord Byrd, the FL Sec. Of State, the citizen volunteers were told – to their faces, with a chuckle – that “Florida loves ERIC”; that they just utilized the system “a little differently”. Further questions were ignored.
I’ll go out on a limb here and say that if a state concerned with election integrity is presented with the numbers that were given to the Florida state officials, they would respond with fervent thanks and an immediate task force to correct the problem. After all, DeSantis’s first gubernatorial election in 2018 was only won by the slim margin of 32,463.
State officials had had their chance to address the problem and whistled right past what could be seen as their own “graveyard”.
After all, they loved ERIC.
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