Colorado is one of 26 loser states that still belong to the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). The annual fee costs Colorado taxpayers around $50,000 a year. ERIC is supposed to help election officials maintain more accurate voter rolls and detect possible illegal voting.
But it doesn't.
It mostly monitors permanent change of address (NCOA) filings with the U.S. postal service that it inconsistently shares with the CO Secretary of State. (You can run the entire CO voter roll through NCOA data for $60. If the state did it every quarter, the cost would be $240.)
The latest 2023 tax return for ERIC (they don't file timely) highlights that membership states paid a total of $1,605,480 to ERIC in 2023.
That year ERIC spent $502,212 for salaries (three senior personnel and a junior), $93,389 for an annual software license (to whom?), $339,505 on legal fees with a fancy DC law firm (why?), and $220,322 on lobbying activities (who do they lobby and why?). They made a profit of $152,379 in 2023 and were sitting on $1,350,744 in cash at the end of that year.
ERIC has a full copy of the Colorado voter roll but the CO Secretary of State won't share it with the DOJ because she's scared of what they will find.
There is no election integrity in Colorado just lunatics in charge of the asylum.