{"id":1682168,"date":"2022-10-10T17:47:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T21:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1682168"},"modified":"2022-10-10T17:48:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T21:48:51","slug":"colorados-democratic-secretary-of-state-sent-get-out-the-vote-postcards-to-30000-noncitizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colorados-democratic-secretary-of-state-sent-get-out-the-vote-postcards-to-30000-noncitizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado\u2019s Democratic Secretary Of State Sent \u2018Get Out The Vote\u2019 Postcards To 30,000 Noncitizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcolorados-democratic-secretary-of-state-sent-get-out-the-vote-postcards-to-30000-noncitizens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1682168&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The office of Colorado\u2019s Democrat secretary of state admitted to \u201cmistakenly\u201d sending \u201cget out the vote\u201d postcards to roughly 30,000 noncitizens ahead of the state\u2019s upcoming elections, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/colorado-30000-noncitizens-got-vote-registration-mailer\/ar-AA12O0Pr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Associated Press (AP)<\/a>, Secretary of State Jena Griswold\u2019s office blamed \u201cthe error on a database glitch related to the state\u2019s list of residents with driver\u2019s licenses\u201d and claimed that \u201cnone of the noncitizens\u201d would be permitted \u201cto register to vote if they [tried].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe error happened after department employees compared a list of names of 102,000 people provided by the Electronic Registration Information Center [(ERIC)] \u2026 to a database of Colorado residents issued driver\u2019s licenses,\u201d the AP report reads. \u201cThat Department of Revenue driver\u2019s license list includes residents issued special licenses to people who are not U.S. citizens. But it didn\u2019t include formatting information that normally would have allowed the Department of State to eliminate those names before the mailers went out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under state law, Colorado <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/research\/immigration\/states-offering-driver-s-licenses-to-immigrants.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">may issue<\/a> driver\u2019s licenses to non-U.S. citizens and is able to automatically register eligible citizens to vote when they acquire their license from the Department of Motor Vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/11\/democratic-operatives-control-voter-rolls-in-31-states-report-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> by Federalist Staff Writer Victoria Marshall, a group known as ERIC was kickstarted in 2012 \u201cby far-left activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/person\/david-becker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Becker<\/a>\u00a0and the left-leaning\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/pew-charitable-trusts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pew Charitable Trusts<\/a>\u201d and \u201cshares voter roll data \u2014 including records of unregistered voters \u2014 it receives from the states with [the Center for Election Innovation and Research (<a href=\"https:\/\/electioninnovation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CEIR<\/a>)].\u201d CEIR was one of two leftist groups used to funnel Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s $419 million into U.S. states that resulted in the\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/13\/mark-zuckerberg-spent-419m-on-nonprofits-ahead-of-2020-election-and-got-out-the-dem-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">private takeover of government election offices<\/a>\u201d during the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCEIR then develops targeted mailing lists and sends them back to the states to use for voter registration outreach,\u201d Marshall writes. \u201cAs part of their agreement with ERIC, states\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_morningbrief\/d-c-board-of-elections-sued-for-keeping-voter-data-secret_4144019.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=mb-2021-12-09&amp;mktids=1d74b01a65bdf6b768d7855cabbd21fc&amp;est=ChoPU9MaZioIH9Wc1UKsDAQ3gODvCXHoprHcf35zErAxQx46I39wl2nrRjLOysumb%2BlmHnIn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are not allowed to disclose any data<\/a>\u00a0they send to nor receive from ERIC, however, ERIC is not under the same constraints and is able to work with CEIR.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response to the proclaimed \u201cerror,\u201d Griswold\u2019s office told the AP that it is purportedly in the process of sending notices to the 30,000 noncitizens that received the postcards and that it\u2019s developing practices \u201cto prevent or reject anyone not eligible to vote from registering, including comparing Social Security Numbers required for each application, on a daily basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Shawn Fleetwood is a Staff Writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He also serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The office of Colorado\u2019s Democrat secretary of state admitted to \u201cmistakenly\u201d sending \u201cget out the vote\u201d postcards to roughly 30,000 noncitizens ahead of the state\u2019s upcoming elections, according to a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1682168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}