Colorado Won’t Name 31,000 Foreign Citizens It Sent Voter Registration Info, So Counties Have No Idea If They Voted

Colorado officials are still refusing to cooperate with local counties after the secretary of state’s office sent more than 31,000 foreign nationals postcards on how to register to vote in time for the 2022 midterms.

According To a newly released report By the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), Colorado secretary of state’s office has refused to give county election officials the names of foreign nationals who received voter registration instructions in their counties back in October. According To documents obtained by PILF Deputy Secretary Of State Christopher Beall 54 foreign nationals who received voter registration postcards in the mail refused to be identified. Moffat County.

A spokesperson for Beall Told a Moffat County It was officially known. “potential legal issues that need to be addressed before lists of erroneous recipients in each county can be shared” and that he did not have a timeline for when such issues would be resolved — “or if they can be at all.”

Because the secretary of state’s office is refusing to cooperate with county officials, there is no way for them to check if such ineligible residents voted illegally in the 2022 midterms.

As Previous reports by The FederalistThe faulty mailer was the result Colorado’s membership with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a voter registration management system that helps states register new voters. As Part of its membership deal Colorado Each election cycle, the government is required to send at least one voter registration mailing to eligible citizens.

As I’ve previously explainedERIC creates a list of eligible but not registered (EBU) voters for states by combining data taken from voter files, DMV records, and state agencies that carry out voter registration functions. After ERIC creates these lists and sends them to the States. The states use them for voter registration outreach.

Secretary Of State Jena Griswold’s office blamed The mailing “error on a database glitch related to the state’s list of residents with driver’s licenses” — but ERIC openly It admits that it creates voter outreach list using DMV data. In Colorado, foreign citizens may obtain driver’s licenses. (Griswold claimed “none of the noncitizen” Drivers would be permitted “to register to vote if they [tried].”)

Griswold’s office tried to remedy its “mistake” Soon after, a second round was sent out to the original mailer recipients. This explained the qualifications to vote. The Also available in the office “built a mechanism into the online voter registration portal to prevent any of the 31,093 from using the system,” According to PILF.

“Colorado shouldn’t be sending foreign nationals voter registration information,” PILF President J. Christian Adams Statement. “When they do, the public should be able to see all of the records so we can hold election officials accountable. Transparency in elections is essential. This circus right before a federal election shouldn’t happen. Knowing who is to blame and what went wrong is essential to prevent a repeat.”

Currently, PILF does not exist suing The Colorado Secretary Of State’s