Colorado sent 29,997 postcards to ineligible citizens due to a system integration with ERIC.
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Badlands MediaSep 16, 2026
Colorado's secretary of state's office mistakenly mailed about 30,000 noncitizens postcards encouraging voter registration, blaming a database glitch from matching an ERIC name list against driver's license records.
Our two reads of who says this, and how, disagree, so it counts as the post's own claim.
What was said
… But what we find in practice is that there is no monitoring or oversight, I would argue. You're not even user acceptance testing of those system integrations, because we end up with things like what happened in New Jersey this year or late last year, or what happened in Colorado with the 30,000 postcards. That was a system integration with Eric. Where they're intentionally inflating the voter rolls with ineligible citizens, 29,997 of them in the state of Colorado, trying to inflate the voter rolls, and there's plausible deniability, because the counties aren't allowed to ask, the local election officials are not allowed to ask about citizenship. They've told me that, right. …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. AP reports the Colorado Secretary of State's office mistakenly sent postcards to about 30,000 noncitizens, blaming a database glitch tied to the state's driver's license list and an ERIC list of 102,000 names.[1][3]
Supports. The Colorado Secretary of State's office stated that approximately 30,000 EBU postcard mailers were incorrectly sent to ineligible Coloradans, and it described the problem as arising from the ERIC-related comparison.[4][5]
Supports. AFP reports the mailers were sent in accordance with the state's ERIC contract after a database name-matching error, and that the non-citizens remain ineligible to vote.[6]
Contradicts. The post's allegation that Colorado intentionally inflated the rolls is contradicted by AFP, which rates the claim that the solicitation was intentional as misleading; the extracted claim itself does not include intent.[6]
Context. The sources do not give the exact figure 29,997; they say 'about 30,000'. The claim's 'ineligible citizens' wording conflicts with the sources' 'noncitizens'.[1][2][4]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 4 not rated
- 1Colorado: 30000 noncitizens got vote registration mailerapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
- 2HB332: Voter Registration Data Amendmentsle.utah.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3Colorado: 30,000 noncitizens got vote registration mailer - WJTVwjtv.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Colorado accidentally sent voter registration notices to 30,000 ...cpr.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 5Colorado 'incorrectly' sends 30,000 voter registration notices to noncitizenswashingtonexaminer.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Colorado mailer spurs midterm election misinformation onlinefactcheck.afp.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
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