5,300+ Colorado voters withdraw registration as state prepares to send info. to Trump commission
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Kinda stumbled on this article, it's a day late but hasn't been posted yet.
[quote]More than 5,300 Coloradans have withdrawn their voter registration over the past month, new figures from the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office showed Monday as the office prepares to send voter roll information over to President Donald Trump’s election integrity commission.
Secretary of State Wayne Williams will send the information over to the controversial commission by the end of business Monday, his office confirmed.
Williams has said since the day after the request first came in that he would only send the commission what was allowable under state law: a voter’s full name, address, party affiliation and date the person registered, phone number, gender identity, birth year, and information about if a person has voted in prior elections.
The commission had also requested two things that Colorado won’t hand over: a voter’s Social Security number and a voter’s birth date—things that aren’t public record in Colorado.
Colorado has seen among the highest number of voter registration withdrawals in response to the commission’s request, which some have framed as being no more than an attempt to disenfranchise or suppress voters.
The commission, the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, was formed by President Trump after his repeated, yet unfounded, claims that millions of people had voted illegally in last year’s election.
As of Friday, 5,314 voters in Colorado had withdrawn their voter registrations since June 28, the day the commission made its first request, and another 246 had become confidential voters—something Colorado allows people to do if they are victims of domestic violence or could be threatened by having their address made public.
The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office has maintained that there is not widespread voter fraud in Colorado, and noted only 18 convictions or pending cases since 2000 in the state. Williams has also said that the information the commission is getting can't verify the accuracy of voter rolls.[/quote]
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This is pretty bad but dont also forget how republicans loves to redistrict areas with large african american voters to suppress their votes. Something they have been doing for quite a while and yet I never seen any media uproar over it.
thats a lot of fucking info, more than enough to obtain a fake identity with.
Why are the States cooperating with the Federal government? America need pay no more attention to Trump's ridiculous whims than if he was some sort of insect.
[QUOTE=archangel125;52529672]Why are the States cooperating with the Federal government? America need pay no more attention to Trump's ridiculous whims than if he was some sort of insect.[/QUOTE]
it depends on state laws. in the case of Oregon, for example, the federal commission actually has to send Oregon a check for $500 dollars like anybody else and in most cases secretaries of state will have to abide by certain privacy laws which will likely mean that the federal government isn't going to get all the data they asked for.
Somehow, I don't think Trump is going to be too upset about 5,300 Democrats withdrawing their voter registrations.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;52529882]Somehow, I don't think Trump is going to be too upset about 5,300 Democrats withdrawing their voter registrations.[/QUOTE]
It was his plan all along.......
yeah if you guys were thinking that the democrats are gonna sweep the 2018 elections, let me tell you:
the republicans are taking over by force. they don't care about future elections because they're rigging them right in front of our eyes.
[QUOTE=Sableye;52529634]thats a lot of fucking info, more than enough to obtain a fake identity with.[/QUOTE]
The request was specifically for whatever was already publicly available. I assume that's why they didn't give social security number and birth date based on their non-public status.
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