'Pulling out of ERIC' ERIC is a collaboration between over th | Follow the Data with Dr Frank

"Pulling out of ERIC"

ERIC is a collaboration between over thirty states where states pay a third party large fees to compare state voter rolls, intended to help the states clean up their voter rolls.

Instead, states ended up sharing massive amounts of personal information about their residents, information that is being used to cheat our elections.

Starting last year, states have begun pulling out of ERIC, which is a minor victory fueled by grassroots activists.

I say that this is only a minor victory, because instead of ERIC, states are now setting up their own data-sharing schemes, schemes just as vulnerable as ERIC.

People need to wake up. The core problem is that voter rolls are centralized and electronic. We need to be maintaining them at the county level, like we did until twenty years ago.

We need to Vote Amish: all paper, no machines. Local control, voting in person, with photo ID.

Until we return to this (e.g. as Europe has), we are essentially giving our elections away.

Wake up, people.