America First Legal has filed a lawsuit against Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes for refusing to release public records on the 218,000 voters who were not verified as US citizens. Those records are public records and cannot legally be withheld. Fontes is trying to run out the clock until after the election certification. Fontes is claiming that most of the 218,000 are Republicans. But how many of the non-Republicans are illegal aliens? It could be up to 100,000.
A press release from AFL reads:
“Secretary Fontes’s stubborn refusal to share the list of 218,000 registered voters is against the law. Today, AFL filed a lawsuit to force Secretary Fontes to follow the law and turn over these records immediately.”
The number first reported was 98,000 but soon grew to the present 218,000. Roughly 218,000 voters across the state were registered without proof of citizenship due to a supposed glitch in the system. Have you ever noticed that glitches always work in the favor of the Democrats? That is kinda odd isn’t it?
Despite knowing about the issue for more than a week, Arizona’s Secretary of State did not notify the public until Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer announced a staged lawsuit on September 17, less than two months before the election. The idea of a lawsuit was cooked up by Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, Governor Katie Hobbs, and Attorney General Kris Mayes during a September 10 phone conversation where the officials conspired to cover up the issue and minimize the blowback from the public. RINO Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s lawsuit was a plot cooked up by the Democrat officials who worried they would come under fire for removing the voters, who they claim are mostly Republicans, from the rolls or downgrading their ballot to federal races only.
Press Release from America First Legal:
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELWASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit on behalf of Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona, known as “EZAZ.org,” against Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and the Secretary of State’s Office for illegally withholding a list from the public of over 218,000 individuals who registered to vote without providing proof of citizenship as required by law.
Secretary Fontes administers Arizona’s system that performs statewide voter registration checks to determine if an individual has provided proof of U.S. citizenship, as required by Arizona law. On September 6, 2024, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer identified a flaw in the system that had allowed tens of thousands of individuals to register to vote even though they hadn’t provided proof of citizenship.
This flaw was revealed to the public when Recorder Richer filed an Emergency Petition in the Arizona Supreme Court on September 17. This lawsuit sought to prevent the affected voter registrants from voting in state and local races. As part of that lawsuit, Secretary Fontes confirmed that he had identified 97,928 registered voters who had been incorrectly marked because of the system flaw as having provided documentary proof of citizenship, even though they had never done so.
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that these voters should not be moved onto the “Federal-Only” list but should be allowed to remain registered to vote in state and local elections. However, the Court also ruled that county recorders could continue to maintain voter lists to investigate whether these voters really were citizens.
Within hours of Recorder Richer filing his lawsuit on September 17, AFL filed a public records request on behalf of its client, EZAZ.org. The request asked Secretary Fontes to produce the list of every individual who had been unlawfully registered to vote.
However, Secretary Fontes declined the request through a letter written by his attorney. Rather than treating constituents with respect and decorum, their response was a bombastic tirade that invoked a bizarre conspiracy theory accusing EZAZ.org of secretly planning to harass the voters on the list. There is, of course, no evidence to support Secretary Fontes’s conspiracy theory, and EZAZ.org has no intention of harassing anyone. Secretary Fontes also feebly claimed that compiling the list would be too hard for his staff. None of these excuses hold water. Fontes’s staff has already compiled the list–that’s how they know the number of affected voters. And there is no risk that these voters will be harassed–EZAZ.org’s mission is all about protecting voters.
Arizona’s Public Records Law requires Secretary Fontes to produce this type of voter information for members of the public who request it, and Secretary Fontes’s Office regularly produces voter lists in response to such requests. In his denial, Secretary Fontes was unable to provide even one example of voter harassment caused by producing voter lists as part of a public records request.
