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Nearly 3,400 Coloradans canceled their voter registrations in the wake of the Trump administration’s request for voter info, the Secretary of State’s Office confirmed Thursday, providing the first statewide glimpse at the extent of the withdrawals.
The 3,394 cancellations represent a vanishingly small percentage of the electorate — 0.09 percent of the state’s 3.7 million registered voters. But the figure is striking nonetheless, with some county election officials reporting that they’ve never seen anything quite like it in their careers.
The withdrawals began in earnest earlier this month, after a presidential advisory commission on election integrity requested publicly available voter information from all 50 states.
Trump established the advisory commission in May with a mandate to review U.S. election integrity, with a focus on voter fraud, voter suppression and other “vulnerabilities.” But the effort has been clouded by privacy concerns and distrust from the start.
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OhShoot! wrote:Article:
County election officials told the Post there were two primary reasons people gave for pulling their registration — they don't trust the voter commission and they didn't realize how much personal information their registration contained.
Read more here:
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/colorad ... id/801784/
Wed Jul 19, 2017 5:07 pm
deadshot2 wrote:OhShoot! wrote:Article:
County election officials told the Post there were two primary reasons people gave for pulling their registration — they don't trust the voter commission and they didn't realize how much personal information their registration contained.
Read more here:
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/colorad ... id/801784/
Anyone who thinks their personal information is private now days is too stupid to have a vote.
Personal information on each and every person is gathered from the moment they are born to the moment they die.
Want total privacy? Move to the middle of a jungle along the Amazon River. You might have a chance there.
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OhShoot! wrote:deadshot2 wrote:OhShoot! wrote:Article:
County election officials told the Post there were two primary reasons people gave for pulling their registration — they don't trust the voter commission and they didn't realize how much personal information their registration contained.
Read more here:
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/colorad ... id/801784/
Anyone who thinks their personal information is private now days is too stupid to have a vote.
Personal information on each and every person is gathered from the moment they are born to the moment they die.
Want total privacy? Move to the middle of a jungle along the Amazon River. You might have a chance there.
Then you're okay with a gun registry too?
Thu Jul 20, 2017 11:51 am
Wetpaperbag wrote:There needs to be a national voter registry, and proof of legal citizenship needs to be provided, and it needs to be enforced. Among that we need to get back to voting booths, none of this vote by mail stuff. Too easy to steal someone's ballot and vote on their behalf, or even having ballots go out to deceased folks (such as the case when my father-in-law passed). Show up to a voter place, with legal ID in hand done. Heck keep the polls open for a week to allow folks time to come in.