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The Big Lie They Hoped You Wouldn't Notice

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The Big Lie They Hoped You Wouldn't Notice

Accurate voter rolls are the key to clean elections. Voter data is the fuel that drives modern electoral campaigns. Keep these two facts in the back of your head, because they explain the election integrity fight better than anything else.

The Constitution gives states primary control over their elections. Federal law also requires states to maintain accurate lists of registered voters. Yet state governments have always struggled to fulfill this mandate because voters regularly leave the state, change their names or addresses, or—inevitably—die. Some people commit felonies and forfeit their voting rights. Others simply fail to vote for years yet remain on the voter rolls. And almost no one moving out of state remembers to unregister in their old state before re-registering in their new state.

That last one sounds counterintuitive because we're used to so many things happening automatically—shouldn't registering to vote in, say, Idaho immediately unregister me in California? The surprising answer is "no." That interstate communication problem is what ERIC was ostensibly created to solve.

In 2012, ERIC spun off from Pew Center on the States—an arm of the left-wing mega-funder Pew Charitable Trusts—as a project to "modernize" the voter registration process. Restoration News traced the project’s early funding to George Soros' Foundation to Promote Open Society, which earmarked $725,000 in 2011 to "expand [its] scope and scale." But a 2010 Pew report created during ERIC's infancy reveals much more.

Pew's forthcoming "common data exchange" would require states to "submit their current [voter registration] lists and motor vehicle data" to a "data center"—what became ERIC—which would "standardize, collate, and match it" with "data such as U.S. Postal Service National Change of Address information, Social Security death index data," "felon data," citizenship status for naturalized Americans, "public assistance agency data," "individual address history," "military data . . . for military members and their families," "state tax data," and "university data [on] student names, ages and addresses."

In other words, ERIC would seek and obtain the private, ultrasensitive data not available to political campaigns—data political operations would kill for—under the guise of helping states remove ineligible voters from the rolls.

By definition, cleaning voter lists means removing ineligible individuals. Yet ERIC require states to attempt to register new voters—a fact to which ERIC's founder, David Becker, has admitted. In 2018, he boasted that ERIC "is the single most effective voter registration drive in the history of the United States." In other words, ERIC is a tool for bloating voter rolls even as it pretends to be a service for de-bloating them—from the organization's bylaws:

When a Member [i.e. state] receives an Eligible but Unregistered Report the Member must act on the report by, at a minimum, initiating contact with all ‘individuals identified in the report deemed potentially eligible by the Member’ for the purpose of providing voter registration information, including the deadlines and requirements for registering as specified in applicable federal or state law.

To put it bluntly, the cleaning is a "may"; the registering is a "shall." That's a raw deal to anyone who's not a Democrat political operative trying to win elections.

And here's the kicker: these member states pay ERIC to hand over their own residents' protected information. If you live in one of ERIC's 28 member states, you're paying to give away your most sensitive personal information to unaccountable partisan groups while also inflating the voter rolls.

What kinds of data does ERIC access? Your most sensitive and tightly controlled personal information, per the group's own bylaws:

Your full name
Address
Driver’s license or state ID number
Last four digits of Social Security number
Date of birth
Phone number and email address
Current voter registration status

ERIC's defenders wave these facts off as so much conspiracy-mongering and coincidence. Yet it's hard to believe the incredible value of this sensitive data was lost on either Pew or Becker, Pew's director of election initiatives and, later, ERIC's first executive director.

Becker is a longtime elections lawyer who once worked for the far-left group People for the American Way, famous for "Borking" Judge Robert Bork in 1987. A former Justice Department colleague once described Becker as an "unethical," "hard-core leftist" who "couldn't stand conservatives." He routinely blasts conservatives as election deniers and domestic terrorists. Today, Becker runs the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), a partisan group heavily funded by Mark Zuckerberg to "fortify" the 2020 election in Democrat vote-rich areas. Becker also frequently lobbies to expand mail-in voting.

In other words, he's a savvy political operator. But you're supposed to believe a group launched, led, and funded by leftists is apolitical.

(For the complete picture on ERIC's origins and operations, read our full report cited by the Department of Homeland Security.)
Finally in the Crosshairs

Restoration News began reporting these facts in early 2023. Now, the Trump administration is taking notice.

On Sept. 2, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin filed an open letter asking newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche to investigate ERIC and CEIR for possibly violating federal law "through states' disclosure of sensitive motor vehicle data for use in identifying and registering individuals who had previously declined to register to vote." The letter follows a September 2025 meeting between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Justice Department officials on ERIC's possible violations.

From the letter:

Marketed as a voter list maintenance organization, ERIC exposes millions of citizens' sensitive private data to unknown contractors, subcontractors, and agents of ERIC—potentially in violation of the DPPA [Driver's Privacy Protection Act]. In practice, it appears ERIC lobbies states to sign a contract that requires the disclosure of the private data of individuals who were not registered to vote and therefore certainly could not be in need of voter list maintenance. The data fields disclosed include Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers.

Mullin correctly notes that "this category of data regarding potential voters is incredibly valuable to political parties and campaigns." Modern campaigns win or die on how well they’ve microtargeted their voters. Knowing an individual's age, ethnicity, voting history, and more can provide crucial insight into their political leanings.

Yet ERIC's eligible-but-unregistered data has also been used to attempt to register noncitizens to vote—as happened in 2022, when Colorado accidentally mailed voter registration invitations to 30,000 noncitizens. That was ERIC's fault.

"We have serious concerns about the potential for alien registration across other states," Mullin writes.

What about identifying dead voters? That's one of ERIC's "purported benefits," Mullin points out. Yet this year, federal immigration analysts discovered more than 42,000 dead registrants on voter rolls in Georgia, which has been an ERIC member since 2019.

Mullin calls ERIC's use of DMV data "reckless," and he's right. In February 2026, a Washington state resident discovered 550 ERIC eligible-but-unregistered voter registration postcards "mailed to the same commercial address from the Secretary of State."

One mistake is understandable. Two is human. How many errors before we start asking ERIC why it deserves any access to our private information?
Voter Reference Foundation: How It Should Be Done

Contrast that with our colleagues at the Voter Reference Foundation (VRF), which publishes www.VoteRef.com in the belief that transparency is paramount to free and fair elections.

"VRF believes election data should be as transparent as possible," VRF Executive Director Joseph Benson told Restoration News, "while ERIC is built around the principle that election data should be shared selectively and controlled through a closed membership structure that avoids public scrutiny."

Amazingly, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 already requires most states to make their voter files publicly accessible. Yet Benson points out that everyday people "must wade through complicated record request processes, overcome huge fees, and even face legal barriers"—just to get a pared-down list.

That's why Restoration of America launched VRF in 2022 and has fought in court to guarantee public access to the voter rolls in New Mexico and Massachusetts.

At great expense, VRF purchases voter registration and election data "directly from official state sources using publicly available records request processes" established by federal law, Benson explains. Where VRF can't publish voter data, it documents those limitations "rather than keeping the process clouded in secrecy."

"We do all that work," Benson added, "so that the information that would normally be out of reach is provided to citizens in an easy-to-use format."

Anyone can check their voter registration status in 36 states at www.VoteRef.com—and they should. While they're at it, they should VoteRef their friends, family, and that new babysitter they're considering.

Benson sees a contrast in what he calls "two philosophies of access." While ERIC closes off access to the public and bars journalists from secretive press conferences, VRF believes the more public scrutiny of our election systems the better.

"VRF staff are former election officials, so we have tremendous respect and admiration for the people who work in this space," Benson said. "But we also believe . . . the public shouldn't depend solely on trusting work done behind closed doors. That casts doubt on the hard work it takes to run our elections.

"If our government truly exists to serve the people, then citizens deserve access to the information and processes that govern them," he added. "ERIC's membership aggressively restricts and restrains what information its member states can disclose to the public. It does not appear that ERIC wants the public to know what they do or how they do it."

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Friday, September 11, 2026 12:22 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

I would add to that story a very important piece of information that they've left out...

There is HUGE money in NOT purging voter rolls, and anybody who has the means makes out like bandits because of it. Not just Democrats. Not just politicians in general.

Anyone.

I used to work for a company who did mass mailers. We'd do it for anybody who had money and wanted to get something out to the people in the mail. Not just politicians. But the political work was the real bread and butter of the operation, and everybody working there got somewhere between 60 and 80 hours of overtime per week in the weeks leading up to an election.

We had a creepy little dude who I'm sure was somewhere pretty high up on the autistic scale working there who kept to himself all day long on his computers doing god knows what. We're talking in the age of Windows 98/XP, and only 1 of his 4 monitors had anything resembling a modern OS on them, while the other 3 were always just walls of text.

One of the things he was in charge of doing was purging out all of the non-voters in any state that were still on the lists. Be it for any of the reasons that the voters no longer belonged on those lists for a particular state mentioned in the article above. Death, Moving out of the state, people who were still alive and in the same place but haven't voted in ages, etc. We also had lists of what were called Hard Republicans, Soft Republicans, Hard Democrats and Soft Democrats too. I was kind of shocked to see printouts of this information and realize they had a very detailed profile on all voters (names, addresses, and all the personal information mentioned in the article above), as well as how often they voted (R) or (D) in the last "X" amount of elections.

One of my jobs was handling the billing and collections of the bills, and balancing of the books all year long until they were shipped off to the boss' accountant at the end of the year. I was even a 5-day seminar on QuickBooks once my boss paid off the temp agency and made me a full-time employee.

So sitting in that chair, I knew what we were billing our clients for the use of these voter rolls and "Death Lists".

Bottom line, because the states NEVER bother to keep any of these lists up-to-date even though there is ZERO excuse for not doing so with the technology available to us for the last 3 decades plus, any political candidate that didn't want to waste tens of thousands of dollars (in 1999-2001 money) would also purchase a one-time use of these death lists, and move lists, and voter proclivity lists for EVERY SINGLE MAILER they put out. $1,000 here, $2,000 there for every mailer... It all added up very quickly.

Why would somebody pay that, you might ask?

Because the alternative was spending a whole ton of money on producing extra mailers at the print shop, having them addressed on the assembly line which required no-less than 8 employees from start to finish, and then paying postage to the post office for mailing them. (I'm sure that printing addresses has to be much more automated today).

One single piece might not look to be that expensive if it was just a simple post card with a bulk-mail postage discount, but if you're sending out a mailer to 150,000 households or more, sending out these mailers to tens of thousands of dead people or people who moved out of the state(s) or people you already know aren't going to vote (or just aren't ever going to vote for you) is a phenomenal waste of money.

Bottom line is that these lists already exist. All of them. They've existed at least for the last 28 years, and I would assume they've been around longer than that and weren't a brand new thing when I started working there.

But our states won't use them. Why? Who knows...

Who complies these lists and where did they come from? Who knows...

So all of these politicians would spend money from their own campaign funds purging these voter lists before every mailer they sent out, or from the collective coffers of each party on the races that really mattered.

And if they really wanted to hone the results after removing all of the people that were dead or no longer moved into the state, they could pay even more money for those voter proclivity lists that kept a long record of your PERSONAL voting history to purge any "Soft Republicans/Democrats" and only target those who were the most likely to vote for you in the upcoming election and ensure that they weren't just sending out half of their expensive mailers to people who were just going to throw them in the trash or line their bird cages with them.

At the time, I hadn't even registered to vote, so my paranoia about such things didn't hit at all to me... but I was still aghast at just how much personal information were on these lists. Particularly those Voter Proclivity lists.

This was almost 30 years ago now, at a small company who probably didn't have much in the way of cyber security. And you can't downplay the impact of Social Engineering either.

That creepy computer dude wasn't always there, and there were some occasions where I was sitting in his chair doing something for one reason or another, at the boss' behest, so it wouldn't have been TOO out of the ordinary to see me sitting in that chair. And people there liked me, I was a good looking young 20 something with a perfect smile, and I was quick on my feet. Though I didn't have a fraction of the skills he had with computers, especially at that time, I don't reckon it would have been too difficult for me to have stolen copies of all of that data if I had any reason to do so. I could have been sitting with raw lists of every registered person in the state with their full name, address, DOB, Drivers License # and the last 4 SS#. Anybody who worked in the front office of that building could have. Knowing some of the shady shit that went down in that building, it would surprise me more to find out that nobody ever did that...

Though modern day Democrats do themselves no favors by always fighting against such common sense goals as purging voter lists of dead people and people who are no longer inhabiting the state, a large part of this problem may not even be Democrats trying to cheat.

There's just so much money in this racket, no matter what your political leanings are.

Now we'll just have Democrats screaming "muh racism" on one side against finally fixing our voter rolls once and for all, while the Republicans can just sit back on the other side and and claim that their hands are tied while blaming Democrats for all of it.

Meanwhile, we all continue to get fucked, while they're all skimming from the top.

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