For Immediate Action (Urgent Action news from Susan Lucas SREC SD5 Rep)

SB 1070 will be heard in the Senate State Affairs Committee on Thursday March 30! This is the bill that would get rid of ERIC. This is a nationwide voter data sharing system that was originally intended to help us clean voter rolls. But because of problems many states are withdrawing.

The Committee is set to meet at 9:30 am but there are multiple bills to be heard and likely it will be afternoon before this is heard. In-person public testimony will be taken. But if you can’t make it on Thursday email or call the Committee in support of SB 1070!

Data from the ERIC website demonstrates ERIC adds more voters than it removes. This inflates voter rolls, so sometimes more than 100% of the eligible voters are registered to vote. ERIC thus functions as a left-wing get-out the-vote organization. Texas has paid about $1.5 million to participate.

There are no contract restrictions regarding data-sharing by ERIC or its third party affiliates. But there are restrictions on Texas ability to share data even within its own borders. ERIC is funded by those with partisan bias, and dark-money donors.

Urge the Senate State Affairs Committee to Pass SB 1070