{"id":1682439,"date":"2022-10-10T22:49:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T02:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1682439"},"modified":"2022-10-10T22:51:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T02:51:55","slug":"colorado-officials-incorrectly-sent-out-30000-voter-registration-postcards-to-noncitizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/colorado-officials-incorrectly-sent-out-30000-voter-registration-postcards-to-noncitizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Officials \u2018Incorrectly\u2019 Sent Out 30,000 Voter Registration Postcards To 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\">22<\/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%2Fcolorado-officials-incorrectly-sent-out-30000-voter-registration-postcards-to-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=1682439&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--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/colorado\">Colorado<\/a> officials claim they accidentally sent approximately 30,000 postcards last month to noncitizens instructing them how they could register to vote.<\/p>\n<p>First reported by\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2022\/10\/07\/colorado-voter-registration-notices-non-citizens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado Public Radio News<\/a>, Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold\u2019s office said department employees had sent the postcards on Sept. 27 after comparing a list of 102,000 names provided by the Electronic Registration Information Center, a nonprofit organization aiming to improve U.S. voter rolls and advocating residents to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department has become aware that approximately 30,000 EBU [Eligible But Unregistered] postcard mailers were incorrectly sent to ineligible Coloradans,\u201d a spokesperson for the Colorado Secretary of State\u2019s Office told local media. \u201cThe office is undertaking an internal review of the incident and will take any corrective action that is warranted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griswold insisted noncitizens would not be allowed to register to vote.<\/p>\n<p>The postcards, which the office printed in English and Spanish, read, \u201cA message from Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold . . . Our records indicate that you or your household may be eligible to vote, but do not appear to be registered at your current address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mailers did include that to vote that residents must be 18 years old by Election Day, a United States citizen, and a Colorado resident for at least 22 days before the upcoming election, according to Colorado Public Radio News.<\/p>\n<p>Griswold\u2019s office said they plan on sending out correction mailers to the noncitizens, \u201creminding them that only those that meet the above requirements are eligible to register.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to local media, while the office had compared the list of potential unregistered voters to local DMV records, the data had included noncitizen drivers with Colorado driver\u2019s licenses which the state issues for noncitizens to drive legally.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/research\/immigration\/states-offering-driver-s-licenses-to-immigrants.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The National Council on State Legislatures<\/a> website shows Colorado as one of at least 17 states, along with the District of Columbia, that issue driver\u2019s licenses to non-U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>However, the system did not distinguish their eligibility to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Morales-Doyle, director of the Voting Rights Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, told\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-journal.com\/articles\/30000-noncitizens-living-in-colorado-received-postcards-encouraging-them-to-register-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Journal<\/a>\u00a0that the system making a mistake indicates it works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should show, first of all, that mistakes can happen, but secondly that there are checks in place to make sure mistakes don\u2019t result in disaster,\u201d Morales-Doyle said. \u201cIt\u2019s not good this happened. It appears to be a case of human error and a database error and not some conspiracy, which I think some critics would seize on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morales-Doyle added that very few noncitizens have attempted to register in the U.S. for fear of the consequences, including deportation.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado\u2019s Republican Party chair, Kristi Burton Brown, condemned Griswold for the error, saying in a Monday statement to\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/colorado-secretary-state-says-accidentally-sent-30000-voter-registration-notices-noncitizens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cJena Griswold continues to make easily avoidable errors just before ballots go out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griswold is up for reelection in the November midterms, where she will face Republican Pam Anderson, the head of the state\u2019s county clerks association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado officials claim they accidentally sent approximately 30,000 postcards last month to noncitizens instructing them how they could register to vote. First reported by\u00a0Colorado Public Radio News, Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold\u2019s office said department employees had sent the postcards on Sept. 27 after comparing a list of 102,000 names provided by the Electronic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1682441,"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-1682439","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\/1682439","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1682441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}