COLORADO: County Clerk Confirms Data Entry Error, Shooter Tried To Correct Female Designation

It probably won’t be reported on sites like Breitbart and Twitchy, but as we all suspected, the “female” designation of Planned Parenthood shooter Richard Dear in Colorado’s voter database was a mere clerical error and one that Dear attempted to correct on two occasions. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports:

Ryan Parsell, El Paso County’s chief deputy clerk and recorder, said his office incorrectly recorded Dear’s gender in October 2014, leading to the issuance of both a driver’s license and voter’s registration card erroneously identifying him as a woman. What Parsell described as a data entry error occurred after the 57-year-old Dear moved to tiny Hartsel in Park County, which doesn’t have a driver’s license office. Records show Dear traveled 65 miles to a Colorado Springs clerk and recorder’s office to obtain his driver’s license and his voter’s registration card, Parsell said.

Although Dear clearly identified himself as a man, the information was incorrectly logged into a computer, Parsell added. “Our employee inadvertently clicked on ‘female’ and gave the confirmation to Mr. Dear to review,” he said. “He missed it and signed it.” Thirteen days later, Dear received the erroneous driver’s license in the mail. Records show he traveled to a Department of Motor Vehicles office in Salida to report the error and request a corrected license, which he received, Parsell said. To change his voter’s registration card, however, Dear would have had to mail a separate request to his local clerk and recorder’s office.

According to the above-linked report, Dear sent back a change request form for his voter’s registration card, but the correction wasn’t made because his mark on “male” box was considered too faint to be valid. The county clerk says that his office has made many similar database errors. The Gazette has disabled comments on their story. We can assume the reason for that.