![]() The bills were introduced despite the efforts of Texas’s elections director, who attended a meeting and offered factual information related to their concerns last April, apparently without success. Now, lawmakers who regularly attend those meetings have introduced legislation written by the group that would end Texas’s participation in the Electronic Registration Information Center, also known as ERIC. The majority of their grievances - that it is run by left-wing voter registration activists and funded by George Soros, among other things - were pulled straight from a far-right conspiracy website and are baseless. ![]() In virtual meetings taking place over a year, right-wing activists and Republican legislators have stoked concern over a multistate coalition that Texas and more than 30 other states use to help clean voter rolls. Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.
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