The Texas Secretary of State’s Office has signed agreements with nine other Republican-led states to share voter registration data. Texas previously withdrew from a much broader multistate compact designed to combat potential voter fraud.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/elections/2025/09/19/531425/texas-signs-agreements-with-nine-other-gop-led-states-to-share-voter-registration-data/

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Texas signs agreements with nine other GOP-led states to share voter registration data

The move comes less than a year after Texas withdrew from ERIC, a much larger, multistate compact designed to share voter data in order to combat potential voter fraud, under pressure from Republicans alleging ERIC was biased toward Democrats.

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American Oversight Sues Ohio and Louisiana Secretaries of State for Records Related to ERIC Withdrawals - American Oversight

The lawsuits come as several states have exited the bipartisan voter-data system in response to false allegations from anti-democracy conspiracy theorists.

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How the far right tore apart one of the best tools to fight voter fraud

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/04/1171159008/eric-investigation-voter-data-election-integrity

Long but invaluable read; superb investigative reporting by Miles Parks, https://www.npr.org/people/395772167/miles-parks

Shows how easily a few individuals / one website derailed tried-and-true voter verification tool - the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).

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