The Granite State continues to be an island of sanity in a sea of blue politics, but only barely. Despite Republican governors and legislative majorities at the state level, we keep sending Democrats to DC. It doesn’t make sense. But some things do.
We’re the only state cutting taxes. We’ve got the lowest total tax burden in New England, lower poverty rates, better health outcomes, and a long list of positives that recur year after year. We were the first to say no, we’re not joining the Transportation Climate Initiative, and we are neither a sanctuary state nor embracing California Style vehicle standards on the road to Net Zero, and not just because it’s impossible to get there from anywhere, least of all here.
We’re also not handing over our election data to the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). It’s a left-wing funded “non-profit membership organization created by state election officials to help improve the accuracy of state voter rolls and register more eligible Americans to vote.”
Judicial Watch did some research on ERIC, and the results are less than stellar.
- [O]ver the past year, seven states have pulled out—Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, West Virginia, Missouri, Ohio, and Iowa—citing concerns over data security and the left-wing orientation of the organization.
- Florida withdrew in March, saying the group had rejected proposals that “would have eliminated concerns about ERIC’s potential partisan leanings, and made the information shared with ERIC more secure.”
- ERIC does not actually require that member states “remove ineligible voters from their registration rolls.”
- “[S]tates that do not participate in ERIC had a higher rate of identifying and removing from voter registration rolls individuals who relocated out of a jurisdiction than ERIC member states.”
- ERIC was founded by left-leaning attorney David Becker with $157,000 in grants from the George Soros-funded Pew Charitable Trusts.
- In September 2020, CEIR received a $70 million grant from the Zuckerberg philanthropies for “voter education programs.”
- “The large amount of sensitive data provided to ERIC by its member states and the role of the organization in maintaining voter rolls may violate a number of federal statutes,” the JW study notes.
ERIC may have run afoul of other laws at both the federal and state level, which could include- if we were a member – our constitutional right to privacy here in New Hampshire. Thankfully we are not presently at risk for that from them. But we’re the only state in New England that has not hitched its wagon to what looks like another progressive-funded sketchy GOTV effort.
