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Like many targets of the election denial movement, the attacks on a bipartisan voter-roll maintenance tool has profound consequences for election administration — and for access to the ballot.
This week, NPR’s Miles Parks reported on several documents obtained by American Oversight that shed light on how states that abandoned the Electronic Registration Information Center are now scrambling to replace what the partnership had offered them. And as Parks reported, election experts are “deeply skeptical that any of them will be able to fully replicate ERIC.”
For one thing, those cross-state agreements — several of which American Oversight obtained through public records requests — “may lack enough detail to yield reliable results,” Parks reported. But also alarming is the space left for fringe groups and activists to step in.
Wisconsin Update
American Oversight appeared in court again this week in our lawsuit seeking transparency from Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and his secret panel of former state Supreme Court justices, set up to advise on the potential impeachment of Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
Republican efforts to shield communications about redistricting
This week, ProPublica reported on how Republican lawmakers have used claims of legislative privilege to hide information about how they drew new electoral maps — information vital for plaintiffs challenging those maps in court for being discriminatory.
ProPublica’s Marilyn W. Thompson cited documents obtained by American Oversight that point to this strategy.