“Anything that makes elections more secure is a target for the election deniers, and the attacks on ERIC are just another tactic in this effort,” said David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, an organization that works closely with election administrators.īecker, who is a non-voting member of ERIC’s board after helping spearhead its launch a decade ago, attributed the decision to the lies about election administration spread by election deniers.Īllen first promised he would leave ERIC on the campaign trail last year, shortly after the conservative website Gateway Pundit published a series of stories falsely tying ERIC to George Soros, the progressive-leaning billionaire. “I made a promise to the people of Alabama that ending our state’s relationship with the ERIC organization would be my first official act as Secretary of State,” he said.Īllen’s quick move, fueled by right-wing conspiracies about ERIC that spread last year, alarmed election administration professionals. On his first day in office on Monday, Allen terminated Alabama’s membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center, a consortium of roughly 30 states that share data about their voter rolls to keep them up to date, citing concerns about data privacy. Now in office, Allen has wasted no time putting his rhetoric into action. As an Alabama lawmaker, Wes Allen cheered legal efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election-and he rode that “Stop the Steal” persona to win the election for secretary of state, Alabama’s chief elections official, last fall.
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