Colorado Officials Push Back As Trump Administration Expands Voter Roll Verification

By Micah Smith | Denver7

An Associated Press report found the Trump administration has already run millions of voter registrations through a federal government database to determine if the registered voters are eligible to vote.

According to the AP, 67 million registrations mostly from Republican-led states have been run through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s verification program and tens of thousands of non-citizens and people who have died have been flagged.

Critics said the percentage of non-citizens and deceased individuals is a small fraction of registered voters.

As the Trump administration moves to federalize certain election functions, several states including Colorado have sued to block the administration from gaining access to voter information, citing the U.S. Constitution granting states the right to run elections.

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