Several Republican Texas state senators this week have introduced a bill to withdraw the Lone Star state from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), an interstate voter database meant to combat voter fraud by making sure people don’t vote in multiple states, VoteBeat.org reports.
Again, the whole point of ERIC is to make sure people don’t pull the kind of shit that four The Villages, Florida residents were caught doing in the 2020 election and Texas Republican lawmakers and far right activists want to pull out because they think Soros funds it (not an exaggeration, it’s in the VoteBeat article), somehow an even dumber rationale than that of Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen when he pulled the state out earlier this year over false concerns with cybersecurity.
“Now, there is no evidence that ERIC is doing anything to Texas voter rolls, I want to be clear about that, but we do know, again, that the people running ERIC don’t share our worldview,” said Texas state Senator Bryan Hughes during a virtual meeting of their “task force” in October, admitting that there’s actually no problem with ERIC except that he thinks it might be run by Jews.