But they’re cagey about saying so A friend who knows I’m into this sort of esoterica sent along this tale of GOP insincerity in its fight to restore confidence in an electoral system Republicans have worked for decades to undermine. Their particular election bogeyman shifts with the season. It’s dead people voting this time, double voters the next, voter impersonation, rigged machines, stuffed ballots, etc., and Black people. Always Black people. “Election integrity” means Republicans always win, dontcha know. Each GOP loss spikes complaints, demands, and election law tweaks meant to boost integrity by tilting the playing field more in their favor. An organization created to identify double voting, bad addresses, dead voters. etc., and to make election officials’ jobs easier is the once-obscure, nonprofit voter list maintenance consortium named the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). Or it was obscure until a three-part “expose” in January 2022 by Gateway Pundit that I wrote about in March. The post went viral on Gettr, Gab, Parler, Telegram and Trump’s Truth Social. Gateway Pundit alleged that ERIC is a George Soros-funded “left-wing plot to add more racial minorities to the voter rolls,” the Washington Post Editorial Board wrote. “If Republicans are serious about protecting election integrity and the rule of law, they’d celebrate ERIC.” Um, no. Since then, eight states have exited ERIC under pressure from the usual assortment of conspiracy theorists and election deniers who vote in primaries. Republican candidates who want to shine-up their MAGA bona fides see ERIC as a…