Watchdog To DOJ: Investigate Oregon For Destroying Voter Records
An election integrity legal group is asking President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice to investigate the Oregon secretary of state’s alleged mishandling of records from a leftist voter registration network.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation sued Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read, a Democrat, last month for allegedly destroying records from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) indicating which voters have been wrongfully removed from the rolls, as The Federalist reported at the time. PILF sent a complaint to Leo Terrell — Trump’s senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights — on Thursday.
“Oregon officials do not retain monthly alerts from the Electronic Registration Information Center (‘ERIC’) relating to registrants who were previously and inaccurately flagged as deceased,” wrote Logan Churchwell, PILF’s research director, in the complaint that he shared with The Federalist.
ERIC is an elections database that supposedly helps member states clean their voter rolls, but it has close left-wing ties, as The Federalist has reported in the past. In Virginia, the group labeled dead voters “eligible but unregistered.”
ERIC issues “deceased retractions” reports to member states, listing voters the database wrongfully flagged as dead, according to a press release from PILF. The legal group has been requesting “deceased retractions” reports “throughout 2023 and 2024.” (Read more from “Watchdog To DOJ: Investigate Oregon For Destroying Voter Records” HERE)
