Election experts warned that non-citizens might be allowed to vote during the 2024 presidential elections, citing a loophole in Arizona’s election procedures.
On the state’s Election Procedures Manual, drafted by Arizona’s Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D), non-citizens or individuals whose citizenship cannot be verified can register as “federal-only” voters and may enter their ballots in the upcoming elections.
A section of the manual states, “An otherwise eligible registrant who does not submit DPOC (proof of citizenship) and whose U.S. citizenship cannot be verified via AZMVD records or other record in the statewide voter registration database is registered as a ‘federal-only’ voter. A ‘federal-only’ voter is eligible to vote solely in races for federal office in Arizona (including the Presidential Preference Election (PPE)),” the EPM says on page three of its first chapter.”
Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow of the Heritage Foundation, said in an interview with the Daily Caller that he believes Arizona’s two-tiered voter registration system could allow illegal migrants to vote in the November elections.
“I think it’s absolutely a possibility because if you aren’t requiring proof of citizenship, you’re simply going on people’s word that oh yeah I’m a U.S. citizen, you’re going to get aliens who register and who vote,” von Spakovsky remarked.
Von Spakovsky also blasted the DOJ for failing to prosecute such cases, even though it might be considered a felony under federal law prohibiting an alien from registering and voting.
“Aliens have an incentive, a voter registration card, which you get when you register, that’s a gateway for getting other kinds of ID.”
A former official at the Department of Homeland Security and national chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative, Ken Cuccinelli, also aired similar concerns.
“Adrian Fontes could have used his elections procedures manual to help close the decade-old loophole regarding non-citizen voting in Arizona elections. Instead, he made it even worse — allowing non-citizens and individuals who have failed to prove their U.S. citizenship to vote in the Presidential Preference Election in 2024,” worries Cuccinelli.
“Meaning, the same illegal aliens who have flooded across our open border at unprecedented levels in recent years could help decide the winner of the state’s Republican presidential primary in March. Because the manual is exempt from legislative review, we should expect nothing less from the most radical, far-left administration in the history of Arizona state government.”
The EPM used a 2013 Supreme Court decision that preempted the National Voter Registration Act, which led to the creation of the two-tiered voting system.
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