Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has formally asked Attorney General Todd Blanche to investigate ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center, the multi-state group that many states hand their voter rolls to for cleanup, along with a nonprofit called the Center for Election Innovation and Research. The letter went to the Justice Department on September 2. As The Federalist lays it out, ERIC's own model contract requires member states to send in motor vehicle records at least every 60 days, records that can include Social Security and driver's license numbers, and Mullin's letter says that data has been reaching private organizations and "exposes millions of citizens' sensitive private data." He points to the Driver's Privacy Protection Act. An administration official told The Federalist at least nine states were in the arrangement, covering more than 48 million registered voters. Then the line Chuck reads twice, from the contract itself: "under no circumstances shall the Member transmit an individual's record where the record contains documentation or other information indicating that the individual is a non-citizen." The other side gets its say: David Becker of the Center for Election Innovation and Research "firmly rejects any suggestion that it receives motor vehicle or voter data on an ongoing basis." Nobody has been charged with anything. It is a request for an investigation, and the Justice Department has not said what it will do with it. Chuck reads the letter, the contract and the denial, as reported by The Gateway Pundit, The Federalist and NOTUS.
Also in today's episode: the challengers to the president's mail-ballot rule had until 10 AM Eastern this morning to answer at the Supreme Court, the third trip up in a week after Judge Indira Talwani blocked key pieces of the rule again on Friday, per SCOTUSblog and NBC News; North Carolina Governor Josh Stein orders the state's flags to half-staff through September 10 for Gloria Steinem, who died last week at 92, a date The Western Journal notes is one year since Charlie Kirk was killed; Labor Day gasoline hit $4.15 a gallon, a record for the holiday, and diesel hit $5.90, a record outright, per AAA, while Iran says it will declare a restricted zone in the Persian Gulf; a piece of the Kennedy Center's grand foyer ceiling comes down during a rainstorm and nobody is hurt; George Clooney names the three Democrats he would back in 2028; a Georgia candidate puts AirTags in his campaign signs and finds out where they went; the president posts a map with New Mexico renamed; three climbers are rescued off Mount Shasta after an AI planned their trip; and a 22-year-old in Kaysville, Utah becomes the first UpBeat Barre instructor with Down syndrome and teaches her first class to more than 60 people.
There is a famine of truth in our land. Ten stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.
