Georgia House Republicans advance bill to withdraw state from voter location data group

A Georgia House elections panel advanced a bill Tuesday that would prevent the Secretary of State from participating in a multistate database that state election officials and voting rights advocates say helps maintain accurate voter rolls.

Republican members of a House elections subcommittee voted Tuesday in favor of passing the so-called Voter Integrity Act. House Bill 215 would prohibit state election officials from remaining in the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, and sharing voter registration data with non-governmental entities.

The bill was amended Tuesday to allow the Georgia secretary of state to enter into other intra-state compacts for voter list data.

Georgia Secretary of State’s office officials and various voting rights advocacy groups defended the ERIC system as a way to maintain accurate voter rolls and cautioned that leaving the system would be costly and inefficient for the state. Georgia now spends about $97,000 annually as one of 24 members of the election registration database.





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