http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/17/scott-gessler-secretary-o_n_1796910.html
"Ever since he was first elected as Secretary of State in 2010, Gessler has been on a mission to maybe prove that there is possibly a problem with an unknown number of Coloradans who may or may not be legally registered to vote. "
So, DW received the below form letter in the mail today.
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/li...816/20120816_043444_NonCitizenletterFINAL.pdf
Basically, when she got her driver's license, she presented her green card as proof of her legal residence. When she got her citizenship, she registered to vote. There's a loophole there that no one checked her citizenship at the time. Theoretically, she could have gotten her license with her green card and then come back and registered to vote. NOTE: This is not about non-legal residents. They don't have green cards and they can't (legally) get driver's licenses.
The letter went out to 4000 AMERICAN CITIZENS. Because of a bureaucratic snafu in the Secretary of State's office, they are being bullied to jump through additional red tape that may or may not be resolved 80 days before the election. Scottie has stated he will "work with county clerks about what to do with people who don't return their forms".
We are talking about 0.2% of registered voters. That have the POTENTIAL to up and decide if they want to commit felony voter fraud. Of which there have been TEN cases nationwide since 2010. In fact there were a few hundred non-citizens sent ballots IN ERROR who called the state to inform them that, no, they couldn't vote and no, no thank you, did not want to be entrapped for voter fraud, or be dragged into political advertising junk mail, and would they please get their paperwork straight. Hell, DW got called for jury duty TWICE before getting her citizenship, sending it back each time checking the box that she was not legally eligible to participate. She got called once more after becoming a citizen, whereas I've never been called.
So, what to do about the letter. What are they going to do? Deregister her to vote? Ohhhh, I can't wait to see that lawsuit for depriving legitimately registered AMERICAN CITIZENS of their right to vote. That wouldn't be failing to send deployed soldiers paperwork, that is actively depriving someone of their vote because the state can't organize their paperwork. Close the loophole? Go for it. They still cannot legally require her to retroactively reregister because of ex post facto.
Following the "government doesn't ask for anything they can legally demand" rule of thumb, I'm taking note of everything they ask to be done "voluntarily", please, pretty please. This "please affirm you are a citizen or withdraw from the voter rolls" is straight up intimidation. I got your "please affirm" right here. And in the other hand I've got the constitution Scottie-boyo.
IMNSHO, this is no different than harrassing LACs for what a random BG, maybe, potentially, possibly, probably not, but still within the realm of imagination, could do.
"Ever since he was first elected as Secretary of State in 2010, Gessler has been on a mission to maybe prove that there is possibly a problem with an unknown number of Coloradans who may or may not be legally registered to vote. "
So, DW received the below form letter in the mail today.
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/li...816/20120816_043444_NonCitizenletterFINAL.pdf
Basically, when she got her driver's license, she presented her green card as proof of her legal residence. When she got her citizenship, she registered to vote. There's a loophole there that no one checked her citizenship at the time. Theoretically, she could have gotten her license with her green card and then come back and registered to vote. NOTE: This is not about non-legal residents. They don't have green cards and they can't (legally) get driver's licenses.
The letter went out to 4000 AMERICAN CITIZENS. Because of a bureaucratic snafu in the Secretary of State's office, they are being bullied to jump through additional red tape that may or may not be resolved 80 days before the election. Scottie has stated he will "work with county clerks about what to do with people who don't return their forms".
We are talking about 0.2% of registered voters. That have the POTENTIAL to up and decide if they want to commit felony voter fraud. Of which there have been TEN cases nationwide since 2010. In fact there were a few hundred non-citizens sent ballots IN ERROR who called the state to inform them that, no, they couldn't vote and no, no thank you, did not want to be entrapped for voter fraud, or be dragged into political advertising junk mail, and would they please get their paperwork straight. Hell, DW got called for jury duty TWICE before getting her citizenship, sending it back each time checking the box that she was not legally eligible to participate. She got called once more after becoming a citizen, whereas I've never been called.
So, what to do about the letter. What are they going to do? Deregister her to vote? Ohhhh, I can't wait to see that lawsuit for depriving legitimately registered AMERICAN CITIZENS of their right to vote. That wouldn't be failing to send deployed soldiers paperwork, that is actively depriving someone of their vote because the state can't organize their paperwork. Close the loophole? Go for it. They still cannot legally require her to retroactively reregister because of ex post facto.
Following the "government doesn't ask for anything they can legally demand" rule of thumb, I'm taking note of everything they ask to be done "voluntarily", please, pretty please. This "please affirm you are a citizen or withdraw from the voter rolls" is straight up intimidation. I got your "please affirm" right here. And in the other hand I've got the constitution Scottie-boyo.
IMNSHO, this is no different than harrassing LACs for what a random BG, maybe, potentially, possibly, probably not, but still within the realm of imagination, could do.