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Thousands have been reduced to "More handfuls and more handfuls"
"As we gather more handfuls and more handfuls (of potential noncitizens), we're talking about actual fraud here," he said.
Secretary of State Scott Gessler has taken his most expansive step yet to identify non citizens who may be registered to vote, filing open- records requests with jails in 10 of Colorado's largest counties for lists of anyone held on an immigration detainer since 2010.
The office then ran the names and birth dates of people on the lists about 10,000 so far against the state's voter-registration database.
They came up with 85 people who appear to be registered to vote, spokesman Rich Coolidge said. Of those, 29 were active voters, or had cast ballots in or since the 2010 general election.
The counties that provided data were Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson, Mesa and Weld. Pueblo
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toddwv
(2,830 posts)29 "maybe" cases of voter fraud out of over 3,300,000 voters > the millions of people who they want to cast off the voting rolls.
madamesilverspurs
(15,784 posts)Always has, which is why we were horrified when he surfed into office on a teabagger wave. He rode in on the same wave that brought Walker Stapleton to the State Treasurer's office; his first name is testament to his first-cousin relationship to W. Between Stapleton and Gessler, we have been subjected to unrelenting shmuckitude, a sad reality that will continue until we vote them out.
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