
GOP Lawsuit Alleges Arizona Secretary of State Failed to Keep Accurate Voter Rolls
Three Arizona Republicans filed suit in federal court claiming Secretary of State Adrian Fontes kept inaccurate voter registration numbers, resulting in hundreds of thousands of ineligible voters not being removed from the statewide list. “Based on even the most conservative data sources, Arizona has at least 500,000 registered voters on the voter rolls who should have otherwise been removed,” according to the 20-page lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Arizona on May 31. “In other words, 500,000 registered voters currently listed on the secretary’s voter rolls for Arizona are deceased or no longer reside in Arizona.” Other “reliable data sources” indicate the state has between 1 million and 1.27 million “unaccounted-for voters on the state voter rolls,” the lawsuit states....
