Kenneth C. Crowe II is reporting for the Times Union the New York Civil Liberties Union is accusing the Rensselaer County Republicans of attempting to intimidate voters. According to the NYCLU, county records they obtained show that GOP officials had no reason to say they would hand over documents to federal immigration officials to determine if any non-U.S. citizens were registered to vote. The county GOP position is all about intimidating people from registering to vote, said Perry Grossman, the NYCLU’s senior attorney for its voting rights project. “It’s clear there was not legitimate reasoning behind it. The whole point of the press release is to scare people with the threat of ICE investigating it they registered to vote at DMV,” Grossman said Friday. County Executive Steven McLaughlin announced in mid-July the county would share its voting registration records with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. County Republicans are opposed to the state’s Green Light law, which allows non-citizens to apply for driver licenses. The law also prevents ICE from accessing driver's license application records and allows the Department of Motor Vehicles commissioner to not retain them after six months. The county has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to declare the new state law unconstitutional. “We are going to withhold comment due to the ongoing litigation,” Richard Crist, a spokesman for McLaughlin, said when asked to respond to the NYCLU’s comments. Read the full story in the Times Union.