30,000 Noncitizens in Colorado Receive Voter Registration Notices

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold speaks during a committee meeting in Baton Rouge, La. on July 8, 2022. Matthew Hinton/AP Photo

Roughly 30,000 noncitizens in Colorado received postcards prompting them to register to vote late last month.

The state’s secretary of state office put it down to a database glitch, while Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, insisted the online voter registration system would block those recipients when they tried to go through.