A nonprofit group based out of Indianapolis has filed a lawsuit against Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold for allegedly not adhering with federal law regarding the requested release of records regarding registered voters who may be deceased.
Tired of the ads? Go Ad-Free and Get EXCLUSIVE Content, Become a PREMIUM USER. On December 16th, the Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a federal lawsuit in Colorado's U.S. District Court, alleging that Griswold had not fully complied with the National Voter Registration Act pertaining to a request of voter list maintenance records.
PILF reportedly wanted to gain access to voter data around potentially deceased voters that may still be on the voter rolls in Colorado, with the lawsuit citing three examples that date as far back as 2005 where residents of the state had voted on the behalf of deceased individuals.
Adams citing of "ERIC" in the released statement relates to the Electronic Registration Information Center, a group of state election officials whose objective is to enhance the accuracy of voter rolls.
Said group collects the likes of motor vehicle license information and voter registration data from participating states and, via said information, reports back to respective states about individuals who may have moved, carry duplicate registrations, or who may have died.
Back in June, PILF had requested records regarding voter roll maintenance that was done via the data provided by ERIC, namely looking to obtain records on registered voters who have been marked as deceased.
In an August letter from Griswold's office to PILF, a denial of including the aforementioned data was accompanied with the notion that her office doesn't believe ERIC data to be tantamount to "Implementation of list maintenance activities for deceased voters, and therefore such reports are not required to be maintained or produced for public inspection."
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/12/colorado-group-files-suit-over-illegally-withheld-voter-data/
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