Posted on 08/06/2024 9:57:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber
America First Legal (AFL) is suing Maricopa County, Arizona, for allegedly disregarding state law requiring officials to purge voter rolls of any noncitizens.
The Washington, D.C.,-based organization, led by former Trump administration senior advisor Stephen Miller, filed the lawsuit against Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer on Tuesday, according to court documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The lawsuit comes after AFL demanded Richer’s office to remove foreign nationals from the county’s voter rolls — demands that Richer rebuffed.
“America First Legal is leading the charge to keep illegal aliens from voting in 2024,” Miller said in a statement provided to the DCNF. “Maricopa County, in direct violation of state law, is refusing to remove illegal alien voters from the rolls.”
“We are taking decisive action: suing Maricopa County for unlawfully permitting illegal aliens and foreign citizens to interfere in the 2024 election,” Miller continued.
The lawsuit follows demand letters AFL sent to all fifteen counties in Arizona last month.
Those letters demanded county election officials to follow state law by preventing noncitizens from voting in elections, and warning them that they would face legal action if they failed to do so. Richer — responding via his attorney — stated that his office would not take action because his office was already verifying the citizenship of voters, according to AFL.
However, AFL claims that Richer’s response isn’t accurate, and that the number of registered voters in Maricopa County Recorder’s Office without confirmed citizenship “continues to rise,” according to the press release.
There were more than 35,000 registered voters in Arizona who failed to provide proof of their citizenship as of April 1, making them ineligible to vote in state and local elections, according to a July press release announcing AFL’s demand letters to Arizona county recorders. The 2020 Arizona presidential election was decided by a margin of less than 11,000 votes.
Under Arizona law, proof of citizenship is required in order to register to vote. A Supreme Court ruling found that state governments cannot mandate additional voter registration requirements beyond what federal registration forms already impose, which only ask registrants to check a box affirming they are a U.S. citizen — ultimately meaning Arizonans who do not provide proof of citizenship can vote in federal elections in Arizona, but not in state or local elections.
I predict they will delay, delay, and then claim they don’t have time.
Every one of these suits warms my heart. Bring on the heat. Hot these criminals feet to the fire.
At the center of this BS is a rat mole named Bill Gates. He is the AZ version of ratburger in Georgia. Gates is thick as thieves with Cindy McTrairtor and the AZ Dem party. He oversees elections in Maricopa. This little prick helped the rats steal the AZ executive branch and US Senate race in 22.
I would not say so.
And Richer did somewhat reduce the rolls, swollen by his predecessor.
But yes, he was not that vigilant and the “federal only vote” rolls swelled.
It is quite funny, actually!
If you do not present proof of citizenship, you are NOT allowed to vote in local races, but you can vote for President and federal senate and congressmen.
I would think reverse would be more logical.
In some lefty places, they are trying to let aliens vote in local races, but not federal! That actually makes more sense, despite still being not right!
correct on both counts.
The first one is further along than this one and likely has a better chance of winning, perhaps in part because of a Trump appointed judge.
Miller is awesome.
Yes, that was your article that I posted too.
Maybe I’m just too skeptical, but I’m waiting for them to be told that they lack standing, or that they can’t file it YET, or something equally stupid.
I’m glad they’re filing, and I hope something comes from it, but the way things have gone in the past, I’m not sure it will.
The cartels are paying big bucks to get illegals on the voter roster by November.
And the government-funded NGOs are getting them registered via Motor-Voter and moving them state to state to multiply the impact. And these mail ballots will come to the NGO immigrant facilities in each state where the immigrants are long gone, but there will be a "helpful" NGO employee to help them vote, multiplied by the number of states where they are registered, possibly under different names.
And I appreciated that!!
Kudos, Stephen Miller! Sue them and keep suing them.
Richer was defeated in the primary election. He was a Republican (???) Actually he was a “DID”, (democrat in disguise) saying he would vote for Biden (now Border Czar Harris). To bad he will serve thru the election so don’t expect much unless the courts become involved and we all know about the double standards there.
If we had laws against Vote Fraud at the Federal Level, US Attorneys would be Criminally Prosecuting these officials for Voter Fraud.
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