The backlash to the request for voter information was therefore intense. There were major concerns about privacy, about the security of the database, about the intentions of the commission for amassing this data. The immediate response was a 2,150 percent increase in citizens in Denver canceling their voter registration, and there were similar cancelations in Arizona, Florida, and North Carolina.85 The other public response to Kobach and the commissioners was as pointed: “You are all about voter suppression to rig elections … you are evil, pray there is no hell.”
