A number of conspiracy theories emerged to justify President Trump’s “Big Lie” that the 2020 elections were stolen from him because of widespread voter fraud.
One of these was that the Electronic Registration and Information Center, a multistate voter data partnership, was actually a liberal plot to steal elections when it is actually a way to make our elections safer and more secure.
Former Governor Glenn Youngkin took the drastic step of taking Virginia, a founding member of ERIC, out of the program, alongside a number of other questionable decisions impacting Virginia’s voter rolls.
This legislation gets Virginia back into ERIC, paving the way for more accurate voter data, more efficient elections, and better access to voter registration for eligible voters.
SB57 passed both chambers on party-line votes and was signed into law.