The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office reportedly announced that nearly 100,000 Arizonans have registered to vote in the 2024 general election without providing proof of citizenship.
The error, according to the office, documents that if a driver received a license prior to 1996, there is no citizenship documentation in the motor vehicle division’s records.
In 2004 the state allegedly began requiring a voter to provide documented proof of citizenship, but if a driver possesses an older license, MVD will allow them to vote on a full ballot.
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer argued that the office is taking the Secretary of State to court over the issue.
“The Secretary argues that it is too close to the election to implement such a change and that it would be unduly burdensome on voters and deprive them of their voting rights. That is why we are going to the courts. To get a clear answer,” Richer said.
Richer claims he is suing the office “regarding how to handle certain voters who need to provide documented proof of citizenship.”
In May 2023, video revealed that Maricopa County election machines were tampered with and reprogrammed leading up to the 2022 election.
Election officials reportedly took part in undisclosed “Logic and Accuracy” testing on October 14th, after the mandatory October 11th test, but the required public notice of the testing did not occur.
The findings supported Maricopa County Elections Director Scott Jarrett’s statement, “Beginning on October 14th and occurring through October 18th, Maricopa County installed the new memory cards that had the certified Election Program.
Due to the reformatting, logs from the memory cards would have a start date of either October 14, 17, or 18.”
Kari Lake War Room also tweeted a description of the illegal activity: “Maricopa submitted a declaration by Elections Director Jarrett revealing that AFTER the October 11th certification for logic & accuracy, they realized that they didn’t configure the vote center tabulators to not accept provisional or early ballots,” the tweet read.
“So they went in, rewrote the memory cards, installed what they said was previously approved election definition software. This totally reconfigured these machines,” the tweet continued.
