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ERIC member states and withdrawn states as of July 2024 [5]. The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is a nonprofit organization in the United States whose goal is to improve electoral integrity by helping states improve the accuracy of voter rolls, increase access to voter registration, reduce election costs, and increase efficiencies in elections.
As of November 2024, ranked choice voting is banned in eleven states. [174] On February 28, 2022, Tennessee became the first state to ban ranked choice voting state-wide. The sponsor of the bill, then Republican State Senator Brian Kelsey, said the ban was "a win for protecting election integrity and ensuring voter clarity at the ballot box."
The coverage formula, contained in Section 4(b) of the Act, determines which states are subject to preclearance. As enacted in 1965, the first element in the formula was whether, on November 1, 1964, the state or a political subdivision of the state maintained a "test or device" restricting the opportunity to register and vote.
Along with attempting to match duplicate voters across state lines, the states use the data they receive from ERIC to inform new residents of their state that they are eligible to vote.
This number, from January 2023, is based on voters who live in counties or states that use ranked-choice voting. The system has grown over the past two decades with 53 or so cities using it today.
SB 593 is the bill, and says local governments may not use ranked-choice voting for any local, state or federal election. It defines the method at length: "Tabulation proceeds in rounds such that ...
The bill is an indirect effort to stymie the efficacy of the NPVIC by prohibiting disclosure of the state's popular vote until after the Electoral College meets. [152] [153] Later the bill was entirely rewritten as only a statement of intent and ordering a study for future recommendations, and this version was signed into law. [151]
As a Colorado group gathers signatures to put a measure on the ballot installing ranked-choice voting in the state, Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill Thursday that would impose another hurdle for the ...