The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office was unable to election integrity commission evening because officials were “locked out of the secure site” to submit the data.
“We’re going to send (Tuesday) once they’ve renewed our access,” said Julia Sunny, a spokeswoman for Secretary of State Wayne Williams.
Suzanne Staiert, Williams’ deputy, said she thought the issue was “user error on our end.”
The secretary of state’s office is planning to send the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity publicly available voter data — including names, addresses, party affiliations and birth years — as the panel probes voter fraud, voter suppression and other “vulnerabilities.”
The commission, by President Donald Trump in May, on June 28 but then told the state to hold off on sending the information until court challenges to the request played out. Last week a federal court in Washington, D.C., declined a request to halt the process and, in light of that decision, the commission renewed its request for voter data Wednesday.
Williams had planned to send the voter data Monday.
The commission has been dogged by privacy concerns and distrust, particularly following Trump’s unfounded claims that millions of people voted illegally in 2016 and cost him the popular vote.
About 5,300 Coloradans since the panel requested voter information. There are more than 3.3 million active voters in the state.