UT: Republicans urge Utah to resign from ERIC voter roll cleanup group
Several Utah Republican county parties voted on Saturday to pass resolutions urging Utah’s top election officials and state leaders to end Utah’s membership with the Electronic Registration Information Center, also known as ERIC.
Republican delegates in Salt Lake, Weber and Davis counties voted to pass near matching resolutions, which specifically call on Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, the state’s elections director and the Utah Legislature “by legislation if necessary” to “immediately tender Utah’s resignation from ERIC and join with other states who have undertaken similar action.”
The resolutions can’t force Utah to withdraw its membership — that would require further action from the lieutenant governor or the Legislature. Henderson has signaled she has no appetite.
Ahead of Saturday’s convention in anticipation of the resolutions, Henderson posted a thread on X explaining ERIC’s role and describing the attacks against it as nonfactual.
“ERIC has become a favorite boogeyman of the radical election deniers,” Henderson posted. “But their claims are not based in fact, and their demands are counterproductive to their rhetoric.”
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2024/04/16/election-fraud-republicans-urge-utah-resign-eric/