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Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2023 - 2024 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: May 10, 2023 04:33 PM
From: Senator Cris Dush and Sen. Jarrett Coleman
To: All Senate members
Subject: Reinstating Voter Roll Autonomy
 
In the near future, We will be proposing legislation that will help remove Pennsylvania from ERIC.
 
In the last year, seven other states have decided to resign their membership from ERIC. The issues that these seven states—Florida, West Virginia, Missouri, Louisiana, Alabama, Ohio, and Iowa—found with ERIC are issues that were observed firsthand through the investigation into constituent concerns with Pennsylvania’s election processes. ERIC, which is supposed to be a tool used to help scrub ineligible voters, has primarily been focusing on mass voter registration efforts. Many of the states left ERIC due to data security concerns and partisan leanings. Other states are concerned that ERIC restricts how they can use their data and does not allow states to use data in the ways that they believe best serve their state. It is for these reasons that we firmly believe Pennsylvania can do a better job on its own.

This legislation will provide for Pennsylvania to use databases such as the Social Security Administration death database and the national change of address database to identify voters who may be ineligible to vote in Pennsylvania elections. Pennsylvania is more than capable of cleaning its own voter rolls without sharing data with third party groups and this legislation will enable us to do just that.
 
Please join us in co-sponsoring this important legislation.



Introduced as SB125