Virginia Governor Vetos Bill to Rejoin Interstate Voter Data-Sharing Program

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has vetoed a bill that would restore the state’s partnership with an interstate compact whose stated mission is to help clean voter rolls, saying that the service costs too much money. The vetoed bill concerns Virginia’s membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a non-profit organization aimed to help member states keep their voter registration lists up to date by catching duplicate registrations. States that wish to use its service pay to join ERIC and send their statewide voter registration and driver’s license data, allowing ERIC to aggregate the data from every member to identify individuals who have moved, died, or registered to vote more than once....