Voting rights activists sound alarms over private tool that could lead to canceling voter registrations | CNN Politics

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60% : In an email to CNN, Mike Hassinger, a spokesman for the Georgia secretary of state's office, said the state's "list maintenance procedures are among the best in the nation.
53% : Even without government contracts, elections observers say activists could potentially use the software to file mass voter registration challenges ahead of the 2024 election.
51% : In Texas, which announced in July it would leave ERIC in October, representatives of the secretary of state's office watched the company's presentation to legislative staffers earlier this year, agency spokesperson Alicia Pierce told CNN.
49% : Richards presented the software in March to the conservative Election Integrity Network, a group organized by attorney Cleta Mitchell, who took part in Trump's phone call in which he asked Georgia's secretary of state to "find" enough votes for him to win the state's electors in 2020.
48% : Likewise, a spokesperson for the secretary of state of West Virginia - which also withdrew from ERIC - said the state had been "made aware" of EagleAI NETwork but has no plans to use it.
47% : ""We are trying to help validate the voter rolls to improve the integrity of that part of the process," he said.Richards, a physician, said people trained to use the software will share only "accurate" data about potentially ineligible voters with election officials - after reviewing multiple sources of information, including voter rolls, death records from the Social Security Administration, national change-of-address data and publicly available material, such as newspaper obituaries.
44% : The spokesperson added that private, third-party sources are not included in what state law permits officials to rely on for voter list maintenance.
39% : Nearly 100,000 Georgia voter registrations have been challenged since the law was enacted in 2021, according to Fair Fight Action, a voting rights group founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams that has tallied the cases around the state.

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