The state’s Democrat elections chief announced on Monday that the state had discovered 120, 000 additional registered voters without documentary proof of citizenship ( DPOC), bringing the total number of such voters to an estimated 218, 000.
The office of Democrat Secretary of State Adrian Fontes revealed in a press release additional information about a new set of approximately 120, 000 Arizonans who may be affected by a data coding oversight within the Arizona Department of Transportation’s ( MVD ) and Arizona voter registration databases.
As my colleague Brianna Lyman previously , reported, the issue actually came to light next month when state officials revealed they “found approximately , 97, 000 voters , who are now listed as full-ballot voters despite having never fulfilled the requirement to deliver video proof of citizenship to ballot in provincial elections”. According to left-wing Votebeat Arizona, the problem appears to have been caused by the way the Motor Vehicle Division provides driver’s license details to the country’s voter registration system.
Fontes said most of the damaged citizens are registered Republicans, according to the store.
In Arizona, voters , registering via state registration form must show documentary proof of citizenship ( DPOC ) to vote in state and local races. People who are unable to provide for documentation are referred to as “federal-only” citizens and are limited to casting ballots in federal elections.
Monday’s news revealed that of the newly discovered 120, 000 listed citizens lacking DPOC, about 79, 000 are Republicans, 61, 000 are Democrats, and 76, 000 are Another Party. Collaboration between Fontes ‘ department and Arizona’s MVD” to check if more voters are impacted, or if other related errors stemming from” the error remain continued, according to the press release.
After the conclusion of this General Election, election officials will touch the Arizonans with details regarding their situation, if necessary, according to the press release. The newly discovered 120, 000 damaged citizens are now able to cast the full ballot in November, according to Gonzalez ‘ office, in accordance with a ruling from the Arizona Supreme Court last year.
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer filed a lawsuit in response to the initial discovery of nearly 100, 000 voters who did n’t have DPOC, arguing that these voters should be designated as “federal-only” voters until they provide DPOC. This is contrary to what Frenet and the Arizona Republican have suggested: that these citizens may be given full-ballot position for the common election since they are not to blame for the government’s mistake.
The Arizona GOP and Fontes won, saying that Richer was a” council with the legal authority to remove the Afflicted Electors from being able to vote in the upcoming 2024 General Election for national workplaces and with respect to issues on an Arizona poll.”
” ]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 would violate the principles of due process and is not permitted by state law.
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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 claimed Fontes “has repeatedly demonstrated a complete inability to carry out his fundamental duties”
According to Swoboda,” Secretary Fontes ‘ desire for a top-down system continues to obstruct our county recorders, who are the ONE authorized by Arizona law to change voter registration records.” ” This is a sad day for transparency”.
The AZ GOP chair also requested that Fontes immediately “make public” the data query that “was used to determine the voter records impacted by this error” and grant his office permission 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.
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Shawn Fleetwood is a University of Mary Washington graduate and a staff writer for The Federalist. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClear Health, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood