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How A Beloved Anti-Voter Fraud Tool Fell Victim To Conspiracies

How A Beloved Anti-Voter Fraud Tool Fell Victim To Conspiracies

Update: 2023-06-043
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A rare bipartisan success story, the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, quietly helped to clean up voter rolls and catch fraud for nearly a decade — until it became the target of the far-right and a Trump allied lawyer.

NPR Voting Correspondent Miles Parks and NPR's Investigations Team traced the secret meetings and grassroots pressure to dismantle an obscure elections tool — giving the election denial movement its biggest policy victory yet.

To read the investigation, head here.

This episode: voting reporter Miles Parks.

This episode was produced by by Monika Evstatieva and edited by Ben Swasey and Barrie Hardymon. Data reporting by Nick McMillan. Fact checking by Barbara Van Woerkom. Audio engineering by James Willetts.

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How A Beloved Anti-Voter Fraud Tool Fell Victim To Conspiracies

How A Beloved Anti-Voter Fraud Tool Fell Victim To Conspiracies