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How the Electronic Registration Information Center helps achieve both secure elections and fair voting access.

The bill motivated by conspiracy theories about the voter-roll-checking program nearly died this week in the legislature. Now it’s back, and awaits an uncertain vote.

Doug Mastriano’s pledge to “reset” voter registrations ignores the safeguards that already remove hundreds of thousands of ineligible voters.

The Electronic Registration Information Center is trusted by most states as the most effective way to perform cross-state voter registration checks.

ERIC is a national system that Texas officials say is an important tool to keep voting rolls clean. But a band of right-wing voter fraud activists, joined by state GOP officials, wants to gut it.

Here are a few stories we’ve written lately that debunk misinformation and reveal new information about the forces seeking to undermine elections.

Red states and blue states vouch for the program’s value in their voter-roll maintenance.

How politics and misinformation overshadow their stated reasons for leaving the voter roll coalition that helps prevent voter fraud.

Bill rooted in conspiracy theories about the multi-state program for cleaning voter rolls returns to the Senate for one more vote.

The Reader Advisory Board is the most direct way to give feedback and ideas to Votebeat staff. Here’s how it works.

The many circumstances that led the county to miss the state’s deadline for reporting election results.

Election integrity activists’ unfounded claims undermining a program that helps state officials clean voter rolls.

States’ withdrawals from ERIC show how allegations of a tilted election playing field can still roil some voters.

Proposals giving state officials more authority over local elections — triggered by Harris County’s election problems — are poised to win lawmakers’ support.

The left worries about voter purges. The right worries about secure elections. Clean voter rolls help them both.

American democracy has faced crisis after crisis and come out the other side.

Texas lawmakers, citing problems in the state’s largest county, push to increase state authority over local elections

“Election policy is more durable if it’s bipartisan,” a prominent expert says.

Pinal County election officials tried to paper over problems, but now they need to correct them.

Here’s how officials clean the rolls of dead people and residents who have moved — without removing eligible voters by mistake.