Col­orado Sec­re­tary of State Jena Gris­wold is call­ing Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s pledge to send law enforce­ment to polling loca­tions the equiv­a­lent of vot­er sup­pres­sion — and she says she won’t allow it here.

“We’re going to have sher­iffs, and we’re going to have law enforce­ment, and we’re going to have hope­ful­ly, U.S. attor­neys, and we’re going to have every­body, and attor­ney gen­er­als,” Trump told con­ser­v­a­tive tele­vi­sion host Sean Han­ni­ty late Thurs­day, as report­ed by The Wash­ing­ton Post.

But Colorado’s elec­tions are already secure and that respon­si­bil­i­ty must be left to trained elec­tion pro­fes­sion­als, Gris­wold said in a statement.

“Send­ing law enforce­ment to polling loca­tions is designed for vot­er intim­i­da­tion rather than elec­tion secu­ri­ty, indis­tin­guish­able from tac­tics used against Black vot­ers in the Jim Crow South,” she said.

The president’s com­ments fol­low his repeat­ed claims — with­out offer­ing details or evi­dence — that an elec­tion more reliant than ever on mail-in bal­lots will be fraught with fraud­u­lent and inac­cu­rate results.

That’s in spite of the fact that Col­orado, one of five states that con­duct auto­mat­ic mail-in elec­tions, is the country’s gold stan­dard for safe and secure elec­tions, and the pres­i­dents remarks have been reject­ed by experts and Repub­li­cans and Democ­rats here.

“Sup­pres­sion tac­tics the Pres­i­dent is sug­gest­ing can­not be tol­er­at­ed in our nation, and I will not allow Pres­i­dent Trump to send law enforce­ment to polling loca­tions to intim­i­date vot­ers,” Gris­wold said.