Dallas Morning News: Texas’ top election official lays groundwork to leave voter fraud prevention program

03.10.2023 / By Philip Jankowski
Dallas Morning News: Texas’ top election official lays groundwork to leave voter fraud prevention program

The government accountability group Common Cause Texas called the move "another attempt to scare voters away from the ballot box by sewing doubt in the integrity of our elections." "Either this is a hasty move in response to partisan pressure, which should be discouraged from the Secretary of State's office, or it is a deceitful omission that should be looked at skeptically," Katya Ehresman, voting rights program manager for the organization said in a news release. "Texas should focus on strengthening the security of our elections, not removing systems, like ERIC, that ensure checks and balances especially given the SOS office's history with illegal voter purges."

The government accountability group Common Cause Texas called the move “another attempt to scare voters away from the ballot box by sewing doubt in the integrity of our elections.”

“Either this is a hasty move in response to partisan pressure, which should be discouraged from the Secretary of State’s office, or it is a deceitful omission that should be looked at skeptically,” Katya Ehresman, voting rights program manager for the organization said in a news release. “Texas should focus on strengthening the security of our elections, not removing systems, like ERIC, that ensure checks and balances especially given the SOS office’s history with illegal voter purges.”

 

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