Wednesday, Sep. 11, 2024
Have Arizona election officials refused to remove non-citizens from voter rolls?
Arizona's voter roll maintenance procedures, which county recorders and the Secretary of State are responsible for implementing, include processes for verifying citizenship. There is no evidence to suggest that non-citizens remain on voter rolls, and non-citizen voting in the United States is extremely rare.
Arizona’s maintenance procedures include several measures for verifying citizenship, including resources from a multi-state voter information database, the Electronic Registration Information Center, and correspondence with the county jury commissioner’s office.
Conservative groups have recently put pressure on elections officials to explicitly verify the citizenship of all federal-only voters and have sued Arizona’s 15 county recorders for allegedly failing to fulfill this duty. The state’s attorney general has disputed a related legal complaint.
Arizona is the only state with federal-only ballots, which require voters to provide proof of citizenship documents to register in state and local elections. Most federal-only voters are Native Americans, students or seniors.
Sources
- America First Legal America First Legal Sends Legal Demand Letter to All 15 Arizona Counties Threatening Legal Action If They Do Not Take Action to Stop Illegal Aliens from Voting
- Maricopa County Elections Department Voter List Maintenance & Registration Cancellation
- Arizona Secretary of State Voter Registration Procedures
- Democracy Docket Arizona Superior Court, Complaint against all Arizona County Recorders
- Democracy Docket Arizona Superior Court, Notice of removal from state court
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