While visiting the U.S. capital last week, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen decided to make an impromptu visit to the headquarters of a widely used voter-roll management group with ties to left-wing activists. There was just one problem: He found no trace of the organization at its listed address.
“I was in DC for a meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of States and, since I was in town, I went to see the [Electronic Registration Information Center] Headquarters,” Allen said in a statement. “What I found was that there was no ERIC headquarters at that address. There were no employees. There were no servers. There was no ERIC presence of any kind. Instead, I found a virtual office that is rentable by the day. What it was missing was people, servers and any sign of the ERIC team.”
As The Federalist’s Victoria Marshall reported, ERIC is a voter-roll management system founded by far-left activist David Becker that was sold to states as a “quick and easy way” to manage their voter rolls. When states become ERIC members, they give voter data to the group — including the records of unregistered voters. Currently, ERIC has control of voter-roll data in more than half of states and the District of Columbia.
While ERIC’s website lists a D.C. address in its “Contact Us” section, Allen claims the location listed is actually operated by Expansive, a business that provides virtual workspaces across the nation and rents office space on a daily
