Jena Griswold, Colorado's rabidly leftist Secretary of State who will forever be known for her anti-democratic drive to knock former President Donald Trump off the ballot, has suffered another election law loss in federal court.
The U.S. District Court for the Colorado District last week issued an order demanding the Democrat secretary of state release Electronic Registration Information Center reports suspected of containing dead registrants on the state's voter rolls.
"States cannot use third parties to hide election records that the public has a right to see." Griswold ultimately signed the stipulation after the court denied her original request to dismiss the case.
Lifting ERIC's Veil of Secrecy Among the many reasons states have left the voter registration data sharing partnership in droves is that ERIC's membership agreement bars states from sharing some records with the public.
The act provides that each "State shall maintain for at least 2 years and shall make available for public inspection all records concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters." Exceptions include confidentiality of individuals who decline to register to vote and "The identity of a voter registration agency through which any particular voter is registered." Thanks to PILF's lawsuits, ERIC, founded by left-wing election law advocate David Becker, has altered its secrecy demands.
As the Republican National Lawyers Association noted at the time of Griswold's admission, a similar issue dogged Pennsylvania Secretary of State Pedro Cortes, a fellow Democrat who resigned in the wake of a "Glitch" that "May have allowed thousands of ineligible immigrants statewide to vote." Griswold, on the other hand, was rewarded with an easy re-election victory not long after her election integrity fiasco.
"An evolving electoral map could dramatically change the behavior of voters, parties, and States across the county, in different ways and at different times," the court held.
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