‘When this goes public … it’s going to validate all of their theories about illegal voting,’ Katie Hobbs worried before asserting such theories are ‘not true.’
Arizona election officials privately worried that having nearly 100,000 voters on the wrong voter list would “validate” concerns about the integrity of the state’s elections.
Arizona requires voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship in order to vote in statewide elections. Voters who do not provide such proof are registered as “federal-only” voters, meaning they can only cast a ballot in federal races. Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer recently discovered what Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs described as an “erroneous voter registration record.”
The record was that of a noncitizen who was on the voter roll as a full-ballot voter, according to VoteBeat. While this noncitizen had a green card, all noncitizens are legally prohibited from voting in federal elections. Upon further inquiry, the state claims to have found approximately 97,000 voters who are listed as full-ballot voters despite having never provided the documentary proof of citizenship required to vote in statewide elections. […]
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