Arizona election officials have admitted that they “mistakenly” registered about 100,000 ineligible voters as eligible to vote in the 2024 election.
Arizona has some of the strictest laws in the nation banning foreigners from registering to vote. say The state checked the box for 97,000 people who had not provided proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, announced Tuesday that the state had mistakenly marked registered voters as having already provided proof of citizenship when they had not. Reported Vote Arizona and we'll win.
Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said the state mistakenly marked these voters as having already provided proof of U.S. citizenship during voter registration, but it's unclear whether they actually provided proof of U.S. citizenship.
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“Recently, officials have discovered that some long-term Arizona residents who were registered under looser rules were not required to meet the new standards due to a coding flaw,” Fontes said in a statement. Luke: The election “conspiracy theories” that Democrats say didn't happen are happening in 49 states
Fontes argues that most of the people affected by this issue are longtime residents, and that Republican voters are hurting more than anyone else. And yet, election officials in Maricopa County found a person on the county's voter rolls who had been added to the state's voter rolls without providing proper proof of citizenship. Fontes said the person was in the country legally with a green card, but was ineligible to vote because he wasn't a U.S. citizen.
Nevada and Virginia are rushing to clean up their voter rolls ahead of the election, with Governor Youngkin leading the effort to remove fraudulent voters amid growing allegations of voter fraud. pic.twitter.com/nvPCAC4y6R
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The state argues that voters demonized in the case still have time to submit the proper paperwork before the November election.
Republicans have been vocal in their campaign rhetoric, trying to raise awareness of the reality that illegal immigrants are registered to vote in the 2024 election. Deleted The state removed more than 6,500 foreign nationals from its voter rolls in August after an audit found that there were more than 1.1 million ineligible voters registered in the state. Similarly, Alabama 3,251 people Virginia has removed from its voter rolls 6,000 non-citizens who were given non-citizen ID numbers who were registered to vote. Luke: The election is already being rigged, but Republicans still have a chance to stop it.
Election integrity is essential to our democracy.
Texas' strict election laws have led to more than one million ineligible voters being removed from voter rolls.
We will continue to protect Texans' right to vote while also safeguarding our elections from illegal votes.
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— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) August 26, 2024
The battle to block foreign nationals from voting is brewing in the House of Representatives. Republicans are trying to attach the SAVE Act to a government spending bill in order to get it through the Democratic-controlled Senate. The administration media and Democratic elected officials are Pushing the story forward While it is extremely rare for illegal immigrants to vote in U.S. elections, there is undeniable evidence that they are registered to vote.
