A lawsuit to obtain Colorado’s ERIC data reports concerning “registered voters identified as deceased or potentially deceased” may proceed, a federal district judge ruled on Friday.
For context, the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, is a widely used voter-roll management organization founded by Democrat activist David Becker that was “sold to states as a quick and easy way to update their voter rolls.” In actuality, ERIC inflates voter rolls by requiring member states to contact eligible but unregistered residents to register to vote.
In their lawsuit against Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) alleged that Colorado’s ERIC data is subject to the disclosure provision of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). Under the NVRA, states are required to make “available for public inspection, for a period of at least two years, all records concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters.” The two exceptions to this provision are records revealing the identity of the government department through which any specific registrant was registered and those showing an individual declined to register to vote.
In June 2021, PILF submitted a letter to Griswold seeking to obtain Colorado’s ERIC data from 2019-2021 “concerning registered voters identified as deceased or potentially deceased.” The legal group also sought “[a]ll reports and/or statewide-voter-registration-system-generated lists showing all registrants removed from the list of eligible voters for reason of death” for those same years, which would include information such as full names,
