Denver Post. “New Secretary of State Scott Gessler wants to change Colorado’s voter-registration laws based on his fear that 16,000 or more registered voters in the state might not be citizens. But that number is being questioned by some who say Gessler is manufacturing a voter-fraud scare to push civil-rights-constricting legislation.
Gessler came up with the number of potential noncitizen voters Wednesday by asking the Colorado Department of Revenue to identify all driver’s-license holders in Colorado who are in the country legally but are not citizens. Rich Coolidge, spokesman for Gessler’s office, said those driver’s-license numbers were then “bounced off” driver’s-license numbers on the secretary of state’s voter-registration rolls.”