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Oops! Arizona Discovers An Additional 120K Registered Voters Lacking Proof Of Citizenship
The Federalist ^ | 10/01/2024 | Shawn Fleetwood

Posted on 10/01/2024 7:06:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

GOP Chair Gina Swoboda claimed the ‘public, impacted stakeholders, and the Arizona Supreme Court were misled as to the extent of the issue and its effect on Arizona’s voter registration records.’

Arizona’s Democrat elections chief announced on Monday that the state has found 120,000 additional registered voters lacking documentary proof of citizenship (DPOC), bringing the estimated total of such voters to 218,000.

“Today, the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office released additional information about a new set of approximately 120,000 Arizonans who may be affected by a data coding oversight within [Arizona Department of Transporation’s] Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) and Arizona voter registration databases — individuals who have lived in the state for decades and have attested under penalty of perjury that they are U.S. citizens,” the office of Democrat Secretary of State Adrian Fontes revealed in a press release.

As my colleague Brianna Lyman previously reported, the issue originally came to light last month when state officials revealed they “found approximately 97,000 voters who are currently listed as full-ballot voters despite having not fulfilled the requirement to provide documentary proof of citizenship to vote in statewide elections.” The error appears to have resulted “from the way the Motor Vehicle Division provides driver’s license information to the state’s voter registration system,” according to left-wing Votebeat Arizona.

Fontes said most of the affected voters are registered Republicans, according to the outlet.

In Arizona, voters registering via state registration form must show documentary proof of citizenship (DPOC) to vote in state and local races. Individuals who are unable to provide such documentation are registered as “federal-only” voters and can only cast ballots in federal races.

Monday’s announcement revealed that of the newly discovered 120,000 registered voters lacking DPOC, approximately 79,000 are Republicans, 61,000 are Democrats, and 76,000 are Other Party. Collaboration between Fontes’ office and Arizona’s MVD “to investigate if additional voters are impacted, or if other similar errors stemming from” the error remain ongoing, according to the press release.

“Election officials will contact the affected Arizonans with information regarding their status after the conclusion of this General Election if necessary,” the presser reads. Fontes’ office argued that the newly unearthed 120,000 affected voters are authorized to vote full-ballot this November due to a decision issued by the Arizona Supreme Court last week.

In response to the initial discovery of nearly 100,000 voters lacking DPOC, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer filed a lawsuit arguing these voters should be designated as “federal-only” voters until they provide DPOC. Fontes and the Arizona GOP argued the opposite — that these voters should be granted full-ballot status for the general election since they are not at fault for the government’s error.

Arizona’s high court sided with Fontes and the Arizona GOP, ruling that Richer failed to establish that “the county recorders have statutory authority to remove the Affected Voters from being able to vote in the upcoming 2024 General Election for federal offices and with respect to matters on an Arizona ballot.”

“[W]e are unwilling on these facts to disenfranchise voters en masse from participating in state contests,” Chief Justice Ann Scott Timmer wrote. “Doing so is not authorized by state law and would violate principles of due process.”

[READ: Leaked Call: AZ Democrat Officials Feared Voter List Error Would ‘Validate’ GOP Concerns About ‘Illegal Voting’]

Responding to Monday’s developments, Arizona Republican Party Chair Gina Swoboda claimed in a statement that the “public, impacted stakeholders, and the Arizona Supreme Court were misled as to the extent of the issue and its effect on Arizona’s voter registration records.” She also argued Fontes “has repeatedly demonstrated a complete inability to execute the core functions of his position.”

“Secretary Fontes’ desire for a top-down system continues to shut out our county recorders who are the ONLY officials empowered by Arizona statute to process voter registration record changes,” Swoboda said. “This is a sad day for transparency.”

The AZ GOP chair further called on Fontes to instantly “make public” the data query “used to determine the voter records impacted by this error” and authorize his office to “deliver the list of impacted voters to all 15 county recorders.”

The office of Secretary Adrian Fontes did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.

For more election news and updates, visit electionbriefing.com.


Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. >


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 2024; 2024electionsteal; arizona; bidenalieninvasion; illegals; illegalsvoting; noncitizens; registration
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1 posted on 10/01/2024 7:06:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Cheating blatantly in front of our eyes!


2 posted on 10/01/2024 7:11:58 PM PDT by princess leah ( )
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To: princess leah

Is or will anything be done about it?


3 posted on 10/01/2024 7:17:38 PM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: SeekAndFind

That POS Ruben is said to be up by many points.


4 posted on 10/01/2024 7:21:12 PM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism .)
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To: SeekAndFind
by a data coding oversight within [Arizona Department of Transporation’s] Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) and Arizona voter registration...

Oversight my a$$. You simply check one box on your driver's license application and no one checks it.

5 posted on 10/01/2024 7:23:27 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: SeekAndFind

With Newsomes no ID required to vote (how many times) he signed into law today, they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. There will be a civil war soon enough. North and South was the old defining enemies, but now it’s blue or red.


6 posted on 10/01/2024 7:25:08 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Who knew?


7 posted on 10/01/2024 7:25:49 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim (C )
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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8 posted on 10/01/2024 7:26:46 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: SeekAndFind

could they really be cleaning up the fake voter rolls????????


9 posted on 10/01/2024 7:31:12 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s way to late in the cycle to be depriving illegals of their right to vote.


10 posted on 10/01/2024 7:32:11 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: faithhopecharity

My question as well... We keep hearing about it, but is anything actually being done about it?


11 posted on 10/01/2024 7:35:36 PM PDT by Raven6 (Psalm 144:1 and Proverbs 22:3)
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To: AndyJackson
these are not illegal aliens, they are mostly long time Arizona resident Republicans that Democrats are trying to suppress their votes to beat Trump and Kari Lake

The Az GOPis fighting to stop this

12 posted on 10/01/2024 7:36:46 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: SeekAndFind

btt


13 posted on 10/01/2024 7:44:12 PM PDT by GailA (kamalaczar and herr waltz want to turn America into a commie country. Vote Trump.)
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To: Let's Roll

Guarantee RINOS won’t do a thing.


14 posted on 10/01/2024 7:46:44 PM PDT by bgill
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To: SeekAndFind

Everyone of those voters should be receiving a next day letter giving them a few days to prove citizenship. Instead we get a judge who want to blatantly corrupt an election in state that Trump supposedly lost by 11k votes. Not acceptable.


15 posted on 10/01/2024 8:22:57 PM PDT by Revel
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To: bgill

They did do something, proved why republicans are the stupid party. The Dems did a great headfake, in that the first trance was majority Republican registered, so GOP sued that they not be removed from the. WaPo leaked a conversation among Dem satate officials ( there was speculation the whole thing was scripted), where they worried that it could lead to challenge of 2020and 2022 results. Republicans kept the names on the roles, since “it was th government’s fault. “ So what are they going to do now that the larger trance of names comes in and is preponderantly Democrat ?


16 posted on 10/01/2024 8:28:12 PM PDT by sopo
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To: rdcbn1

this new bunch is Democrat dominated


17 posted on 10/01/2024 8:29:45 PM PDT by sopo
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To: SeekAndFind

Bookmark


18 posted on 10/01/2024 8:45:47 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: rdcbn1

I believe hubby and I are in that group, tho I’ve received no notification so far. We moved to Az from California in March 1996 and got drivers licenses and registered to vote at around that time. Nobody asked for proof of citizenship then and when we voted after the law took effect in 2004, I took the necessary documentation with me to the polls, but they said it wasn’t needed to vote because I met the requirements at the time. I’d like to know before November 5th if my vote will be counted. 🤬


19 posted on 10/01/2024 8:50:46 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: Raven6

hopefully someone here will know


20 posted on 10/01/2024 9:00:46 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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