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Colorado Residents Canceling Voter Registrations to Avoid Scrutiny of Trump’s Fraud Commission

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Marijuana has been legal in Colorado for several years now, and they do say it can make you paranoid. It’s not the cops they’re worried about anymore though:

 

The Denver Post has more:

Nearly 3,400 Coloradans canceled their voter registrations in the wake of the Trump administration’s request for voter info, the Secretary of State’s Office confirmed Thursday, providing the first statewide glimpse at the extent of the withdrawals.

The 3,394 cancellations represent a vanishingly small percentage of the electorate — 0.09 percent of the state’s 3.7 million registered voters. But the figure is striking nonetheless, with some county election officials reporting that they’ve never seen anything quite like it in their careers.

The Post doesn’t mention if the cancellations are concentrated in any given area. 3,000 or so votes scattered statewide may not mean much, but that many in a smaller area could be worth looking into.

The information requested by President Trump’s commission is already publicly available, which seemed to also be a motivating factor for those canceling their registrations:

The withdrawals began in earnest earlier this month, after a presidential advisory commission on election integrity requested publicly available voter informationfrom all 50 states.

County election officials told The Denver Post that voters have typically given them two reasons for the withdrawals: They don’t trust President Donald Trump’s voter integrity commission, and they didn’t realize how much of their voter registration information was already public under state law.

Recently, President Trump took to Twitter to ask what state officials who wouldn’t comply with the commission’s request had to hide.

That question is probably fairer to ask when dealing with officials who are charged with maintaining the integrity of the election process.

Individual citizens who are skittish about their information being in the hands of the government are generally quite prudent.