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From the Washington Examiner: Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is moving forward with allowing about 218,000 registered voters to participate in the 2024 election despite lingering questions about their citizenship.
The conservative group America First Legal sued to receive a list of the voters by Monday, while a Republican state lawmaker demanded the list in a letter. Fontes, an elected Democrat, resisted those calls, and now an Arizona court will hear arguments over Fontes’s decision to withhold the list on Oct. 15.
The revelation that hundreds of thousands of registered voters were not properly documented in a key border and battleground state came about after election officials initially discovered that 98,000 Arizonans who had received driver’s licenses before the fall of 1996 were registered to vote but may not have provided the state Department of Transportation with their citizenship status. Election officials use the transportation records to cross-check their voter rolls.
Fontes then revealed last week that the number had at least doubled, calling the discovery an “evolving situation” but emphasizing that the law and court precedent support all of the registrants being able to vote in Arizona’s federal, state, and local elections in 2024.
Of the 218,000 voters affected by the error, they are registered as:
- 79,000 – Republicans
- 61,000 – Democrats
- 76,000 – No party affiliation
The Republican Party of Arizona sounded the alarm, writing, “218,000 Arizonans (approx. 5% of registered voters in AZ) affected by Fontes’ voter roll FAILURE! Chair @GinaSwoboda is holding our election officials accountable and demanding answers! All while Katie Hobbs wanted to disenfranchise THOUSANDS of Arizona Republicans.”
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218,000 Arizonans (approx. 5% of registered voters in AZ) affected by Fontes’ voter roll FAILURE!
Chair @GinaSwoboda is holding our election officials accountable and demanding answers!
All while Katie Hobbs wanted to disenfranchise THOUSANDS of Arizona Republicans. pic.twitter.com/Ek8h0nXP8e
— Republican Party of Arizona (@AZGOP) October 1, 2024
WATCH the second news report below for more details:
AFL announced last week, “There are 218,000 registered voters in Arizona who have never provided proof of citizenship. For context, the margin of victory for the 2020 presidential race in Arizona was only 10,457 votes. We just sued to obtain this list of voters…”
There are 218,000 registered voters in Arizona who have never provided proof of citizenship.
For context, the margin of victory for the 2020 presidential race in Arizona was only 10,457 votes.
We just sued to obtain this list of voters… https://t.co/Gg59xU0SWY
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) October 3, 2024
Citizens of Arizona, this election is your last chance before you’re disenfranchised https://t.co/kgRzKyb2cp
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2024
Arizona poised to allow 218,000 with unconfirmed citizenship to vote https://t.co/iePuh872bA
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 8, 2024
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