...The Washington Post story on Ohio's withdrawal from ERIC begins by calling the nonprofit "a little-known data-sharing consortium that has helped keep voter rolls nationwide updated and free of opportunities for fraud but has recently come under attack from election deniers spreading misinformation about its role."
However, Missouri left ERIC because preventing fraud wasn't a priority for the organization, according to the state's top election official.
In a letter to ERIC Executive Director Shane Hamlin explaining his state's exit, Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft cited ERIC's refusal "to require member states to participate in addressing multi-state voter fraud" and its focus "on adding names to voter rolls by requiring a solicitation to individuals who already had an opportunity to register to vote and made the conscious decision to not be registered."
Ashcroft told Just the News on Friday that requiring multistate voter fraud to be addressed by all member states was important because "every illegal vote cancels out a legal voter."...
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/media-claimed-gop-states-left-anti-voter-fraud-org-stopping-fraud-not
