Colorado Prepared to Sue Fed Over Voter Rolls

Colorado's Secretary of State Scott Gessler

Secretary of State Scott Gessler and Attorney General John Suthers sent letters to the Department of Homeland Security asking for federal immigration records to be opened so that they could compare the lists to Colorado's own voting rolls.

They also made it blatant in the letters that Colorado would be willing to join Florida in suing the federal government for the records, if they weren't sent in time for the November elections.

Opponents of the move state that doing so will scare off minority voters, and could disenfranchise legitimate ones as well.

Gessler points out that whilst he doesn't have any proof of voter fraud, he does have letters from nearly five hundred non citizens who wrote letters apologizing for ending up on voting rolls, after they applied for driver liscenses.

Suthers and Gessler believe that there could actually be more than five thousand such cases, and say that they have no desire to put people in jail, but that their goal is purely to ensure that voter rolls are as accurate as possible.

As with so much in politics this issue has become divided by party lines, with Republicans seeking to clean up the rolls, and Democrats attempting to block them.