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 vot...