Colorado: 30,000 noncitizens got vote registration mailer

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Colorado: 30,000 noncitizens got vote registration mailerDENVER (AP) — 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.Colorado’s Republican Party chair, Kristi Burton Brown, condemned Griswold for the error, saying in a Monday statement that “Jena Griswold continues to make easily avoidable errors just before ballots go out” by mail on Oct. 17.GOP makes push to weaken Democrats' grip on Texas borderNevada Senate race tests potency of abortion focus for DemsRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene rises from GOP fringe to frontFight for Black voters intensifies in close Pa. Senate raceThat Department of Revenue driver’s license list includes residents issued special licenses for people who are not U.S. citizens.Sean Morales-Doyle, director of the Voting Rights Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, said the fact that the mistake was caught shows the system is working.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 there have been very few incidents of noncitizens attempting to register in the U.S. because the consequences are so severe — up to and including deportation."

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