Electronic Registration Information Center
Non-profit membership group through which US states share voter data to keep rolls accurate.
When Judge Victoria Marie Calvert rejected the Justice Department's bid for Georgia's full voter file on 30 September 2026, the ruling pointed to Georgia's existing hashed data exchange with ERIC as consistent with state law.
Last refreshed: 1 October 2026
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The Electronic Registration Information Center is a non-profit, non-partisan membership organisation created and governed by state election officials. Seven states founded it in 2012, after a Pew Center on the States report estimated that about 1.8 million deceased people were still registered to vote.
ERIC's reports flag outdated records, deceased voters, likely eligible but unregistered citizens and possible illegal voting. It draws on sources including Social Security death data and Postal Service change-of-address data, and members share data through one-way hashing.
ERIC lists 27 states and the District of Columbia as members, and reports having identified 46 million voter-record updates and 63 million potential voters for them. Non-members use other tools: North Carolina, which is not a member, reported over 35,000 deceased registrants from a federal SAVE search in September 2026.
Hashed sharing fits Georgia's privacy law
The Justice Department had demanded Georgia's full voter list, with dates of birth and Social Security numbers. Dismissing that suit on 30 September 2026, Judge Victoria Marie Calvert noted that Georgia already sends voter data to ERIC through one-way hashing, in a way consistent with state law.
ERIC's members exchange hashed identifiers rather than raw personal data, which lets a state compare records across borders without exposing the numbers its own privacy law protects. The ruling treats that model as compatible with Georgia law, while the department's route to the raw file failed.