In the latest win for election integrity advocates, Washington, D.C. agreed to forfeit data related to the leftist-linked voter roll “maintenance” group known as ERIC, according to a stipulated court order released on Tuesday.
Judge Ana Reyes of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia oversaw the settlement that determined that Monica Holman Evans, the executive director of the D.C. Board of Elections (DCBOE), must forfeit data reports that ERIC generates about deceased or potentially deceased individuals on D.C.’s voter registration lists to the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF).
As The Federalist has previously reported, 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, the program inflates voter rolls by requiring member states to contact eligible but unregistered residents to register to vote.
In its original lawsuit, PILF alleged that then-DCBOE Executive Director Alice Miller and the elections board violated the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) by failing to make available specific information within ERIC Deceased Reports. Under the NVRA’s disclosure provision, jurisdictions 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 documents disclosing the identity of the government department through which any specific registrant was registered
