CEIR & ERIC, hardcore leftist NGOs, celebrated Raffensberger as a “Defender of Democracy”

This week, the Georgia Secretary of State was a star panelist in a summit on threats to American democracy hosted by top Democrats and “progressives” at, of all places, Washington’s International Spy Museum.

If you think elites opining about the threats regular people pose to democracy is peculiar—at a place celebrating espionage, no less—well, that probably means you’re a “fascist.”

Or so we gather from Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D), who’s weary of simply sliming his opponents as “election deniers.”

“There are fascists active in this country,” Fontes blasted. “I personally prefer calling them what they are. They are fascists. And if they don’t want to be called fascists they need to stop acting like fascists.”

Does Secretary Raffensperger agree? It’s hard to say, but his fellow attendees were amazed that he could still “go to the grocery store in peace” given the “wrath of the Trump machine” gunning for him.

We do know that Raffensperger is embarrassed by conservatives who “have trouble accepting reality” about the warped 2020 election because “misinformation and disinformation have been baked into people’s DNA.”

That isn’t surprising, unfortunately, given Raffensperger’s close ties to the sham summit’s founder, the “hardcore leftist” and election lawyer David Becker. Becker’s Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) is a top advocate for vote-by-mail and ever-earlier voting. In 2020, it took $70 million from partisan mega-donor Mark Zuckerberg to juice Democrat turnout in swing states. Now it blasts conservatives as “election deniers” spreading dangerous “disinformation”—merely for questioning Democrats’ meddling in that election.

Raffensperger refuses to pull Georgia out of Becker’s other political group, the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). We know that ERIC is the Left’s top tool for finding, registering, and turning out new Democratic voters—a fact it hid under the guise of cleaning up state voter rolls. In reality, ERIC expands them.

ERIC is perhaps the single biggest reason for Democrats’ recent inroads into Georgia. It’s no secret why: ERIC is a goldmine of private information on 200 million Americans—data that can make the difference between winning or losing an election. Yet only one party, the Democrats, can access it.

That’s not what they got. Multiple reports published weeks before the November 2020 election showed numerous counties with more active registrations than voting-age residents…

What’s clear is that Georgia’s voter rolls are a disaster after 4 years of ERIC membership. Ditto in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and (until this week) … Virginia, which pay hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to be in the compact. To what end?

the tide is turning against him. No wonder 8 states—Virginia, Florida, West Virginia, Missouri, Ohio, Louisiana, Alabama, and Iowa—have left the ERIC compact, citing legitimate concerns about ERIC’s failure to remove ineligible voters from state voter rolls as well as its refusal to reform.Election integrity advocates across the country have realized that ERIC only benefits one group, Democrat get-out-the-vote operatives, and are urging their states to exit David Becker’s phony compact. Texas, Alaska, and other red states are considering proposals to do just that. We expect more will soon follow.

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