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Just four days before Election Day, DOJ probes Arizona voter registrations
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The Justice Department is investigating the Arizona voter registration efforts of three Democratic-aligned groups after an "undercover" video purported to show volunteers willing to register non-citizens.
Key facts
- Arizona has been at the center of election-fraud conspiracy theories since President Trump's 2020 defeat, including a Republican-commissioned review of Maricopa County ballots by the firm Cyber Ninjas
- The Friday announcement comes four days before the Nov
- The "recent reporting" appears to reference an Oct. 22 video by Muckraker, a right-wing media outlet with a marred past
- In letters to both Republican Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap and Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, Courchaine wrote that it "appears these organizations … may have violated
Summary
The Friday announcement comes four days before the Nov. 3 election, and nearly a month after Arizona's registration deadline passed, timing one Republican former elections official says could sow unnecessary doubt about the results. In a news release, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona announced it has "opened a case into recent reporting about three non-profit organizations registering non-citizens to vote in Arizona. The groups are nonprofits Worker Power and Stand Indivisible AZ, as well as When The team Count, a voter-registration program of the Democratic National Committee. DNC spokesperson Angelo Fernández Hernández wrote to Axios, "The team are not aware of any instances of their fellows … registering a noncitizen to vote.