CO’s Secretary of State Calls Reinstating Voters “Absolutely Ridiculous”

On Friday, a Colorado judge was forced to issue a cease and desist order against the Secretary of State Mike Coffman, who had continued to purge voters from the rolls despite an agreement reached earlier in the week with voter rights groups.

Apparently, Coffman still thought he could be removing duplicate registrations and voters who had reportedly died. Needless to say, the judge didn’t agree.

And today Coffman — who by all accounts has complied with the judge’s order — spoke out against the decision that states he will have to reinstate 146 voters, purged since the agreement Wednesday.

“I think it’s absolutely ridiculous for me to be ordered to go back and reinstate those registrations,” Coffman said according to the Denver Post. “Fortunately I think it’s late enough in the process that whatever damage that will be done is so marginal it won’t compromise the integrity of the election. Had it happened earlier, it absolutely would have compromised the integrity of the election.”