If Texas leaves national voter fraud prevention group, what next?

Secretary of state’s office is still rebuilding trust after 2019 voter roll cleanup debacle.

Texas’ likely withdrawal from a nationwide consortium designed to clean up voter rolls while boosting public participation in elections could be a setback for democracy in the state.

But it may happen if members of the multistate group, Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, fail to agree this week on reforms to address concerns that the group leans too far left.