AJC: Republican state legislators who say they want more accurate voter registration lists voted for a bill Tuesday that would withdraw Georgia from a voter list accuracy organization.

EagleAI, the infamous partisan voting software used by right-wing activists in recent elections in order to mass-cancel voter registrations across Georgia, just got a boost in the Georgia Statehouse.

“Georgia voters, not right-wing activists, decide who wins our elections,” said DPG spokesman Dave Hoffman. “Georgia Republicans still cannot imagine why anybody would vote against their top priorities like outlawing abortion, defunding public education, or cutting taxes for billionaires, which is why they’re focused on systematically shrinking the electorate — and why they’re so willing to undermine public confidence in our elections to make it happen.”

Despite public polling showing that 98% of Republicans think the 2024 election was conducted with integrity, yesterday, on a party-line vote of the House Elections Subcommittee, Georgia Republicans passed a measure to withdraw the state from a contract with the non-partisan Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) within 90 days of the bill’s passage. ERIC was used by 21 states — including red, blue, and battleground states — during the 2024 election to handle changes to voter registrations.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution characterized the move as Republican state legislators claiming to want more accurate voter registration lists yet voting for a bill that would withdraw Georgia from a widely used voter list accuracy organization. (Read the full article here).

Georgia Republicans’ solution to filling the void created by abandoning ERIC is more EagleAI — which right-wing activists admitted using to compile their dubious target lists challenging voters, despite EagleAI-identified voter challenges being dismissed far more often than not.

Nor are the efforts to spread EagleAI — promoted by Stop the Steal attorney Cleta Mitchell and her “Election Integrity Network” — unique to Georgia. Recent reporting from Wired magazine, titled “An Election Denial Group Has Spent Months Compiling ‘Suspicious Voter’ Lists in North Carolina,” chronicles the effort to push adoption of the voter suppression software beyond Georgia’s borders.

Read the full reporting from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution here.