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.
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.
Political Cartoons View All 697 Images Griswold faces Republican Pam Anderson, a former suburban Denver clerk and head of the state's county clerks association, who is a staunch advocate of Colorado's all-mail voting system.
The error happened after department employees compared a list of names of 102,000 people provided by the Electronic Registration Information Center, a bipartisan, multistate organization devoted to voter registration, to a database of Colorado residents issued driver's licenses.
Colorado is among at least 18 states, along with the District of Columbia, that issue driver's licenses to non-U.S. citizens, according to the National Council on State Legislatures.
The Colorado postcards, in English and Spanish, specify that residents must be U.S. citizens and at least 18 years old to register.
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