After Missouri, Florida, and West Virginia announced their withdrawal from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) last week, nonvoting board member and founder David Becker tweeted that he would not accept renomination to ERIC’s board.
As previously reported by The Federalist, ERIC markets itself as a voter roll management system used by at least 30 states and the District of Columbia. It operates under the guise of helping states update their voter rolls by removing dead and duplicate registrants and comparing data with other member states. But ERIC does more to inflate state voter rolls than clean them, as it requires member states to engage in partisan voter registration outreach. Becker founded ERIC in 2012, but later changed his role to be a nonvoting member of ERIC’s board.
Becker is a left-wing activist with a history of working as a lobbyist for the George Soros-funded advocacy group People for the American Way and as a Justice Department attorney with a vendetta against conservatives. He is also the founder and executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), one of two groups that funneled $419 million in grant money from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to fund the private takeover of government election offices in 2020. Such grants targeted predominantly blue areas of swing states, running pro-Democrat get-out-the-vote operations from election offices themselves. As noted by good government group VerityVote, ERIC shares voter roll data with CEIR to create lists of eligible but unregistered voters whom ERIC member
