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ERIC data-sharing alliance helps uncover alleged double voting case in Pennsylvania<\/p>\n
Officials uncovered a five-year-old case of double voting in Pennsylvania with the help of a voter roll maintenance program that has been the target of conservative attacks in recent years, Votebeat<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n The case involved a man named Matthew Laiss, who moved from Pennsylvania to Florida in August 2020, and allegedly voted both in person in Florida and via mail ballot in Bucks County in that year\u2019s November election, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n David Metcalf, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, announced charges against Laiss<\/a> in early September. Pennsylvania\u2019s Department of State confirmed the alleged double vote was identified using data from the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC. Metcalf also announced another set of fraud charges that same week, in a case that was not discovered via ERIC.<\/p>\n The announcement that ERIC helped prosecutors uncover alleged double voting comes amid broader questions about the merits of the program. ERIC is a consortium comprising 26 states and the District of Columbia that collects state voter roll data and alerts its members to potentially inaccurate or duplicate voter registration records. It compares state datasets such as driver\u2019s license databases, death records and voter rolls, along with other sources of information, to find cross-state or intrastate matches.<\/p>\n ERIC also helps identify eligible voters who aren\u2019t yet registered. Pennsylvania\u2019s deputy secretary of state, Jonathan Marks, chairs ERIC\u2019s board.<\/p>\n One of its regular functions, Executive Director Shane Hamlin said, is a biennial report identifying possible double voting, the most recent of which came out in March of this year.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile voter fraud is rare, this is a great example of why ERIC is a great tool,\u201d Hamlin said, adding that the data it provides helps states investigate fraud and hand credible cases over to law enforcement.<\/p>\n Florida was a member of ERIC in 2020, making it possible for the system to compare that state\u2019s voter roll data against Pennsylvania\u2019s and discover the type of fraud allegedly committed by Laiss.<\/p>\n But Florida left ERIC<\/a> in 2023, as did several other Republican-led states in recent years, following attacks from conservative activists and media outlets<\/a> that accused it of focusing on working to register left-leaning voters rather than prioritizing cleaning voter rolls.<\/p>\n In the other case announced last week, prosecutors charged Miya Pack of Philadelphia with double voting in the 2024 election, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. New Jersey only recently joined ERIC, and it hadn\u2019t yet provided data for the program\u2019s most recent analysis.<\/p>\n This story<\/a> was produced by Votebeat<\/a> and reviewed and distributed by Stacker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIC data-sharing alliance helps uncover alleged double voting case in Pennsylvania Officials uncovered a five-year-old case of double…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1930,4158,4165,902,4157,4166,4164,744,4163,139,4160,28,30,29,4162,386,4159,50,4167,4161,1113,1824],"class_list":["post-4560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-accountability","tag-democracy","tag-election-law","tag-elections","tag-electronic-registration-information-center","tag-evaluation-methods","tag-governance","tag-government","tag-group-decision-making","tag-news","tag-parliamentary-procedure","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-political-corruption","tag-political-events","tag-political-law","tag-politics","tag-polling","tag-psephology","tag-thestacker","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}