Exclusive: All 15 Arizona County The process of verifying and deleting non-citizens from voter approval has now begun, including nearly 50,000 registrants who have not provided proof of U.S. citizenship.
James Rogers, senior lawyer for the First Law (AFL), told Fox News Digital after his organization’s successful litigation.
AFL filed lawsuits against 15 Arizona counties on behalf of Ezaz.org last year, and Yvonne Cahill Registered voter Naturalized citizens, who believe that these counties do not comply with a national law requiring proof of citizenship to vote in local and state elections, as well as the state’s monthly checks on non-citizens.
Arizona law requires proof of citizenship to vote in state and local elections. (David Jennings/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera by Getty Image)
The 15 counties have now begun working with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to verify the citizenship of all registered voters in the state, who have failed to provide proof of citizenship.
Although a 2013 Supreme Court ruling prohibits states from imposing voter registration requirements, the federal requirement that registrants must check boxes that confirm their U.S. citizenship, Arizona residents are still required to provide proof of citizenship to vote in state and local elections.
Arizona law also requires county recorders to perform monthly list maintenance to confirm U.S. citizenship Among the so-called “federal voters only,” a list of nearly 50,000 people who failed to provide U.S. citizenship is not allowed to vote in state or local elections.
Arizona’s voting volumes will be cleared for non-citizens soon. (Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images)
The registrant who is identified as a citizen will then be moved to the regular list, and those deemed to be non-citizens must be unregistered.
But the AFL argued in the lawsuit that county recorders did not use the resources they available to help verify citizenship, something Arizona law requires them to do. As a result, all 15 counties now send requests to the Department of Homeland Security to assist their efforts to clear voter non-citizen approvals.
Phoenix, Arizona, antenna at sunset (Lightvision, LLC via Getty Images)
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“This will help county recorders find and delete all aliens in voter volumes,” Rogers said. “It also has the potential to obtain citizenship for federal voters, which will enable them to vote in state and local elections. The AFL congratulates 15 county recorders in Arizona for taking this bold and important step in the state’s election integrity.”
