The contract language for data exchanges between ERIC and states requires that non-citizen information be sent but prohibits the inclusion of citizenship status.
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Badlands MediaSep 16, 2026
The claim says the ERIC contract requires sending non-citizen records but bars citizenship information.
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What was said
… And as we've talked about many times and is under investigation, the bullshit in the voter rolls is intentional. It's in the design of the system. It's in the contract language of the exchanges between Eric and states that they send non-citizens, but they can't include their citizenship information. And you heard him say just a couple of minutes ago or seconds ago, So thing drags on this guy, I've listened to this once already and I'm sorry to the audience because I know we feel you and we know, but it's important. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. The DHS letter quotes the ERIC model contract as stating that under no circumstances shall a member transmit a record indicating the individual is a non-citizen, which is the reverse of the claim's requirement to send non-citizen information.[1]
Contradicts. The Heritage report quotes the same membership agreement provision barring transmission of records indicating non-citizenship and notes that the agreement prohibits states from providing citizenship status information, contradicting the claim that the contract requires sending non-citizens.[2]
Context. The DHS letter reports that the ERIC EBU list nonetheless included 30,000 non-citizens in Colorado in 2022, an in-practice outcome that the letter attributes to the data-sharing model rather than to a contract requirement to send non-citizen records.[1]
Context. The ERIC membership-agreement field list and the Wisconsin Legislative Council analysis say the agreement does not currently require citizenship data to be provided, which is consistent with the prohibition on citizenship information in the claim's second half.[3][4]
Sources
4 sources: 1 primary, 3 not rated
- 1Secretary - US Department of Homeland Securitywhitehouse.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts, context
- 2Maintaining Accurate Voter Registration Rolls: The Need to ...heritage.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3[PDF] Wisconsin Legislative Council - Wisconsin Institute for Law & Libertywill-law.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Case: 3:24-cv-00755-wmc Document #: 74 Filedelectioninnovation.org · not rated · cited for: context
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