5,300+ Colorado voters withdraw registration as state prepares to send info. to Trump commission

ABC News Denver ^ | July 31, 2017 | by Blair Miller

[UCANSEE2]

I wonder if this is what a 'con voter' is ?

[Rurudyne]

Should not matter.

The voter rolls as they were in November should be what is handed over.

[TigersEye]

Got news for these idiots. The state isn’t going to erase the old data just because it updates the voter rolls with new data. There will be a file with what the rolls used to be as well as the new one.

[ilovesarah2012]

I can go online and see voter information for my county. I assume you can do it anywhere.

[NEMDF]

Someone wrote an op-ed into our local paper here, saying that the Trump admin’s efforts to obtain voter registration info was just to intimidate voters and suppress the vote. They cited the withdrawals of registrations as evidence that people are being pressured to not vote, by the actions to cross-check registrations.

1) Why would anyone withdraw his or her registration unless there was likely to be a problem arise?
2) Doesn’t this seem like WINNING???? :)

[dennisw]

My guess is that 80% on up of illegal voters are people who are green card holders, foreigners who have been here for a while. They are legal residents, immigrants, but not citizens. Maybe they aspire to be US citizens (it can take a while) and have school age legal children. At any rate they are voting illegally.

The number of illegal aliens voting is smaller than the above.

[freeandfreezing]

I did not know it was possible to be a ‘confidential voter’ presumably meaning one’s name and personal details are sealed in the SOS voter database?

Usually a provision like that is provided for a very limited set of voters. Typically they have domestic violence related restraining orders already and are concealing their address for safety reasons. Their address is known to election officials, but redacted from public versions of the records.

[gnawbone]

This only accounts for people that have registered more than once, fake addresses, and such. It does not account for all of the other various other ways to illegally vote - voting in place of dead people, voting in place of someone else, and not knowing that all of this is going on (which is probably the largest number of illegal votes and therefore not knowing to remove your name).

[bgill]

So, imagine that, there really was voter fraud.

[Jaded]

That’s assuming illegals registered to vote. In some states, all that was required to vote was a drivers license.

[Hostage]

Thank you. THat makes sense.

[vette6387]

“The voter rolls as they were in November should be what is handed over.”

Together with a list of those who were “de-registered!” Those people will be subjected to a proctological exam by the DoJ just as soon as a suitable AG is installed. Prosecutions should follow shortly.

[Eroteme]

As of Friday, 5,314 voters in Colorado had withdrawn their voter registrations

Predictably, the Denver Post plays cute with words to manipulate perception.

Firstly, the Post wrongly uses the words "voter" and "voter registration" interchangeably. With no basis in fact to do so, the Post summarily morphs a registration into a living, breathing human voter. 5314 unique, eligible voters, to be exact. The Post provides no evidence, because it has none, that 5314 separate, individual voters each withdrew their own, single registration.

Possible, yes. Probable, no. It's equally possible, and much more likely, that a good sized portion of those 5300+ registrations were withdrawn in multiples and even batches, by someone other than the putative registered voter. Some would be withdrawn by the people who submitted the (falsified or ineligible) registrations, some would be withdrawn by the people using others' legit registrations illegally to cast a vote, etc.

Not surprisingly, the Post plays dumb, eager to help obscure the common sense necessity for a voter roll review--the whole reason for the commission to begin with.