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Colorado raises eyebrows with ‘accidental’ mailing of 30,000 voter registration notices to noncitizens​

October 11, 2022 | Kevin Haggerty

The midterm elections are four weeks away so the get-out-the-vote effort is in full swing and, as Americans have heard the claim ad nauseam that 2020 was the “freest and fairest election,” a postcard on voter registration sent to non-citizens suggested we may only go downhill from there.

Friday, Colorado Public Radio News drew attention to Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s (D) office and a mailer that had been issued forth reminding recipients of eligibility requirements and of the Oct. 17 registration deadline in both English and Spanish. As it turned out, roughly 30,000 Coloradans who are not legal U.S. citizens were included on the postcard distribution list.

Perhaps she hadn’t yet heard news of the error, but by Sunday, Griswold boasted on Twitter, “As Secretary of State, I’ve worked to make voting more accessible for everyone. That’s why I passed Automatic Voter Registration, which has registered 350,000 eligible Coloradans!” prompting one person to fill her in via link.




The postcard had gone out on Sept. 27 as part of a contract Colorado, along with more than 30 other states and Washington, D.C., made with the Electronic Registration Information Center. ERIC is a nonprofit organization supposedly dedicated to improving voter rolls.

Griswold’s office had composed the list of recipients by comparing records of 102,000 people from ERIC to the Department of Revenue’s driver’s license list which, it turned out, had not excluded non-citizens provided with a special license to allow them to drive legally in Colorado.


A spokesperson for the office stated, “The Department has become aware that approximately 30,000 EBU [Eligible But Unregistered] postcard mailers were incorrectly sent to ineligible Coloradans. The office is undertaking an internal review of the incident and will take any corrective action that is warranted.”

The Associated Press’s coverage of the incident specifically referred to the happenstance as a “database glitch,” drawing as much criticism as the distribution of the postcards.

Sure
— BRAD ONEILL 🇺🇸 (@MR413CROSSRAM) October 10, 2022


Nothing to see here. @massumeh18

— Captain $MARA 🐙 (@Ryancerfus) October 10, 2022



“Glitch”
— Muad’Dib (@paulatreides99) October 10, 2022


the glitch was getting caught doing it
— Ryan Ó Fionnagáin (@ryanfinnegan) October 10, 2022


Colorado’s Republican Party chair Kristi Burton Brown called out the egregious mistake while voter integrity has remained heavily in doubt for many and said, ”Jena Griswold continues to make easily avoidable errors just before ballots go out.”

The reported mistake was cause for some to remind of other suspicious stories that seemed in favor of one-side leading into the 2020 presidential election.

a “glitch” sure……kind of like a broken water pipe….
— Bradley Ashe (@Rockchalk2424) October 10, 2022


The mistakes only go in one direction.
— Brian Guy (@ItsThatBriGuy) October 10, 2022


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— Uncle AC & The Rippers (@ywst_ac) October 10, 2022


Assurances were later provided indicating that the fact that it was discovered that 30,000 non-citizens received these postcards was proof the system was working, or so the director of the Voting Rights Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, Sean Morales-Doyle, would suggest.

“It should show, first of all, that mistakes can happen, but secondly that there are checks in place to make sure mistakes don’t result in disaster. It’s 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,” Morales-Doyle said, according to the AP.

Griswold’s office stated that they are taking corrective measures including issuing a new postcard reminding the non-citizens of eligibility requirements and the penalties, up to deportation, should they violate the law. It was also said that they would continue to check the rolls daily, cross-referencing the list to see if any of the non-citizens did register.

The secretary is seeking reelection after serving her first term and is facing Republican challenger Pam Anderson, the former Jefferson county clerk.
 

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Michigan’s Voter Records a ‘Mess,’ Says Man Who Received Multiple Ballot Applications for Someone Else​


Mike Pashby and his family have lived in their single-family home in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for over seven years and never met a man named Larry Hodge.

But starting in 2020, Pashby regularly began getting absentee ballot applications and voting notices addressed to Hodge in the mail. Despite his notifying election officials with the Kalamazoo Township, Kalamazoo County, and the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office, the notices kept coming.

“The Lansing and Kalamazoo voter registration records are a mess,” Pashby told The Daily Signal in a phone interview. “The township checked and they put mine in a stack with dozens of other similar cards. It wasn’t just me.”

Michigan long has struggled with election records. The Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election integrity watchdog group, sued last year to have the names of 26,000 dead voters removed from the state’s voter registration lists.


Of the 26,000 voters whose names remained on the lists, the legal foundation found that more than 17,000 had been dead for at least 10 years and almost 4,000 had been dead for at least two decades.

Meanwhile, mail-in and absentee voting historically have been among the biggest avenues for voter fraud.

No other mail for Hodge has come to his home, Pashby added, except for at least six applications for absentee ballots.

The applications began arriving after Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced that all registered voters would receive absentee voter forms.

After Pashby had received at least six applications for ballots, and had made repeated visits, the township clerk finally told him this year that it would take two years to remedy.

“My clerk informed me that it will take two years to ‘verify’ [Hodge] is not eligible to vote from my home address, even though records show he had not lived at the address for 20-plus years,” Pashby said.

No one from the Pashby household could have requested a ballot for Hodge. But if someone had, according to the top Kalamazoo County election official, a ballot would not have been sent to the address.

“There is a process in place. When local clerks get an application that is filled out, they review it,” Meredith Place, Kalamazoo County’s clerk and register of deeds, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.

“First they see if that voter is registered at that address. If they are not, they won’t do anything with it,” Place said. “Next, they do signature verification. Local clerks are interested only in sending ballots to qualified voters, not sending out ballots willy-nilly.”

Place said she herself has gotten multiple applications for absentee ballots in the mail and just tosses them, as she would other junk mail. She said private parties are sending those.

“Clerks aren’t sending out absentee ballot applications to voters that do not live at that address,” Place said. “If voters get the wrong application, they can throw it away or better yet, recycle. I get mail wanting me to get new windows. I don’t need new windows, so I throw it away.”

However, the ballot applications sent to Pashby’s home were marked clearly as coming from Kalamazoo Township, based on photos of forms that Pashby sent to The Daily Signal.

“The reminders kept coming to participate, participate, participate for someone who has no right to participate,” Pashby said.

Neither Kalamazoo Township nor the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office responded to inquiries from The Daily Signal for this report.
 
this will be one common mechanism for fraud this year.

Another county in the state of Minnesota has sent voters erroneous ballots, bringing the total number of affected counties to four.

In a filing with the Minnesota Supreme Court last Friday, Murray County Auditor-Treasurer Heidi Winter cited a “clerical error” as the reason why midterm general election ballots were distributed with outdated district numbers for the Minnesota Senate and House of Representatives races.

Due to redistricting, Murray County’s state Senate and House district numbers were changed from 22 and 22A to 21 and 21A. But the ballots sent to voters were still printed with 22 and 22A.

The filing states that 1,884 registered voters in 18 of the county’s 29 precincts received mail-in ballots with the incorrect district number printed. In those 18 precincts all registered voters automatically receive mail-in ballots.

Murray County has now joined Kittson, Roseau, and Ramsey counties in dealing with erroneous ballots.

In Kittson and Roseau counties, ballots sent to voters failed to identify party affiliation for all federal and state offices besides governor, along with the incumbency status of judges.

In Ramsey County, ballots incorrectly including the name of a deceased candidate were sent to 1,198 voters, though the Minnesota Supreme Court has already asked the county to print and resend corrected ballots.

Republican Party of Minnesota communications director Nick Majerus took aim at Secretary of State Steve Simon for remaining “completely silent” as another county scrambles to fix erroneous ballots.

“He runs around the state doing photo-ops posing as a ‘defender of democracy,’ but on Simon’s watch, voters can’t even get the right ballots after voting has been open for weeks. How many more Minnesota voters need to get the wrong ballots before Steve Simon steps up to do his job?” he said in a Tuesday statement.

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Recently in Colorado:


Colorado: 30,000 noncitizens got vote registration mailer​


DENVER -- Colorado’s secretary of state office says it mistakenly sent postcards to about 30,000 noncitizens encouraging them to register to vote, blaming the error on a database glitch related to the state's list of residents with driver's licenses.

The office of Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold insisted none of the noncitizens will be allowed to register to vote if they try.

The news comes at a time of widespread skepticism — often unfounded — of voting integrity following the 2020 presidential election and as Griswold, who has touted her role as a national advocate for secure elections, seeks reelection in the November midterms.
 
Recently in Colorado:


Colorado: 30,000 noncitizens got vote registration mailer​


DENVER -- Colorado’s secretary of state office says it mistakenly sent postcards to about 30,000 noncitizens encouraging them to register to vote, blaming the error on a database glitch related to the state's list of residents with driver's licenses.

The office of Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold insisted none of the noncitizens will be allowed to register to vote if they try.

The news comes at a time of widespread skepticism — often unfounded — of voting integrity following the 2020 presidential election and as Griswold, who has touted her role as a national advocate for secure elections, seeks reelection in the November midterms.

it's always a glitch or mistake.
 
Has the canned statement about the midterm elections being the most secure in US history been prepared yet?
 
Stating the obvious here, but all of these "accidents" are not accidents. That's just what they say when discovered. If the people running these election systems can't utilize some sort of check/review system to ensure the proper things go out at the proper time and to the proper people, then I can't see how there could possibly be any argument that our last election was the most fair and honest election in history. Motherfuckers can't even review a ballot for mistakes before mass mailing them out? Give me a fucking break. They're either the most clueless members of society, or they want to see what it takes to successfully sway an election, and are just going to get better at sneaking shit through as time goes on.
 
Stating the obvious here, but all of these "accidents" are not accidents. That's just what they say when discovered. If the people running these election systems can't utilize some sort of check/review system to ensure the proper things go out at the proper time and to the proper people, then I can't see how there could possibly be any argument that our last election was the most fair and honest election in history. Motherfuckers can't even review a ballot for mistakes before mass mailing them out? Give me a fucking break. They're either the most clueless members of society, or they want to see what it takes to successfully sway an election, and are just going to get better at sneaking shit through as time goes on.
Yes.

Yes to all of that.
 
Stating the obvious here, but all of these "accidents" are not accidents. That's just what they say when discovered. If the people running these election systems can't utilize some sort of check/review system to ensure the proper things go out at the proper time and to the proper people, then I can't see how there could possibly be any argument that our last election was the most fair and honest election in history. Motherfuckers can't even review a ballot for mistakes before mass mailing them out? Give me a fucking break. They're either the most clueless members of society, or they want to see what it takes to successfully sway an election, and are just going to get better at sneaking shit through as time goes on.
They are actively making the choice to be shitty at their jobs when it benefits them.

But you can't prove intent...
 
Stating the obvious here, but all of these "accidents" are not accidents. That's just what they say when discovered. If the people running these election systems can't utilize some sort of check/review system to ensure the proper things go out at the proper time and to the proper people, then I can't see how there could possibly be any argument that our last election was the most fair and honest election in history. Motherfuckers can't even review a ballot for mistakes before mass mailing them out? Give me a fucking break. They're either the most clueless members of society, or they want to see what it takes to successfully sway an election, and are just going to get better at sneaking shit through as time goes on.
And who's behind it? Why, the local election commission. And on a side note, they're local and don't have armed security. Just saying.
 
They are actively making the choice to be shitty at their jobs when it benefits them.

But you can't prove intent...
folks serving jail sentences because the prosecuter proved "intent"... or those who lost thousands to Civil Asset Forfeiture might disagree with you...
 
And who's behind it? Why, the local election commission. And on a side note, they're local and don't have armed security. Just saying.
Nobody is behind it. Nobody is "conspiring". It is a collection of individual actors who have been motivated by their personal beliefs to put the finger on the scale.

I've spoken at length about what these people deserve.


folks serving jail sentences because the prosecuter proved "intent"... or those who lost thousands to Civil Asset Forfeiture might disagree with you...
You're not wrong but think of all the cases where the prosecution couldn't prove intent and settled for something lesser.
 
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Any takers? :laughing:



ThReAtS To OuR dEmOcRaCy!!!
 
I got 20 bucks on the content revolving around GOP election fraud being the TOP security threat... as well as foreign involvement in swaying our elections.

Any takers? :laughing:


They are just preparing for a blowout by the facist right wingers. They can then blame it on this instead of the horrible policies of the democrats
 
They are just preparing for a blowout by the facist right wingers. They can then blame it on this instead of the horrible policies of the democrats
Hopefully. The last couple of years have been impressively bad even for them. It's like every one of them have to one up the last with retarded legislation. :homer:
 
It will be funny if they start crying fraud and denying elections results after everything they said about trump if they get wiped out.

Back in the early summer I was thinking that the republicans would take the house and senate. Then roe v wade came out and things swung back to dems and i was thinking that they might get one of the chambers but now it seems to be swinging republican again. I do hope they take both houses.

Either way I think election night is going to be fun. If the republicans get back in get ready for antifa riots again.
 
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