Colorado Newsline: Voters in Colorado for decades could be confident their information was secure in the hands of election officials. The behavior of the Trump administration puts that confidence in doubt.

The administration is rifling through voter rolls obtained from states, including Colorado, in a nefarious search for noncitizen voters, even though the purported phenomenon of noncitizen voting is virtually nonexistent. The exercise is really a bad-faith voter suppression effort directed by President Donald Trump and undertaken amid a raft of administration attempts to undermine elections.

While Colorado election officials have taken steps to defend the state’s election system, which experts often laud as the “gold standard,” individual voters can take an active role in protecting their own rights. Authoritarians want the people to be pliant, but Coloradans can refuse to bend.

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