Arizona Provides List of Voters with Unconfirmed Citizenship to Activists Following Court Decision

November 5, 2024 TruthUSA

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes stated that any legal violations by the activists who received the data will be referred to prosecutors for prosecution.

Arizona officials on Nov. 4 provided a list of voters who have not shown proof of U.S. citizenship to activists following several court rulings against the state.

“We have followed a court directive to release specific voter records for 218,000 individuals as part of our legal process,” Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes announced at a press conference. “This list has been handed over to the plaintiffs involved in the court case.”

A judge on Oct. 31 directed Fontes to share the list with the group, determining that Fontes and his expert witness had not offered evidence to support their allegations of potential misuse of the voter data. The judge also noted that the group had previously received voter information without any misuse of it.

The Arizona Court of Appeals on Monday upheld the ruling, confirming that Fontes and the Arizona Department of State did not identify any legal or factual errors in the judge’s decision.

“I tried to prevent this,” Fontes informed the reporters. “I have fought against it as much as possible to protect your names and personal information from people I don’t trust.”

He emphasized that any legal violations by the activists who received the data will be reported to prosecutors for further legal action.

Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen stated in a Nov. 4 social media post that he has given “permission to receive those names.”

Merissa Hamilton, who leads the Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona group, confirmed in an email to The Epoch Times on Tuesday that she has received all the files.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Scott A. Blaney, who issued the October order, ruled that by Nov. 6, the Strong Communities Foundation could only share the information with Petersen, Arizona county recorders, Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma, and members of the Arizona House and Senate Elections Committees.

Prior to sharing the information with any of those parties, the group must obtain written confirmation from each recipient that they will not distribute the information to any other individuals or groups.

The Arizona Supreme Court has decided that the voters in question are allowed to cast ballots in the Nov. 5 election.

Hamilton stated on the social media platform X on Monday that soon, the group “will be able to provide to the Recorders the list of impacted citizen voters to ensure these voters can vote!”

Lawyers for her group indicated that activists planned to share the information with all county recorders in Arizona so they could verify the citizenship of voters who have not provided proof of citizenship, as well as legislators whose request for the data was denied by Fontes.

Fontes and other Arizona officials initially revealed the discovery of over 97,000 voters without confirmed citizenship in September. They later disclosed that about 120,000 others had received driver’s licenses before 1996, when no proof of citizenship was required to obtain a license.

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