The Republican Party of Arizona (AZGOP), in partnership with the Republican National Committee (RNC), has filed a lawsuit challenging an Arizona law that allows individuals who have never lived in the United States to register to vote.
Complaint-FINAL“Arizona’s elections should be decided by Arizonans, not by individuals who have never lived a single day in this country,” said RNC Chairman Whatley. “Democrats want to cheat in our elections by allowing votes from people who have never established legal residency. The RNC is defending the rights of Arizona voters to stop this unconstitutional law in its tracks.”
The RNC and AZGOP are suing the Secretary of State of Arizona Adrian Fontes and challenging A.R.S. § 16-103(E), which permits individuals who have never resided in the United States, let alone in Arizona, to register to vote.
They argue that the statute violates the Arizona Constitution, which “clearly states that only bona fide residents of the state are eligible to vote in Arizona elections.”
The groups believe that allowing individuals who have never lived in the United States to register to vote dilutes the voting power of lawful Arizona voters.
This action is part of the RNC’s nationwide legal strategy to secure election integrity by cleaning up voter rolls, and ensuring that every vote cast in American elections is legal and legitimate.
It shouldn’t take a lawsuit to clean up voter rolls.
A.R.S 16-103 E. Any United States citizen who has never resided in the United States and whose parent is a United States citizen who is registered to vote in this state is eligible to register to vote and may vote in this state using a federal write-in early ballot as prescribed by section 16-543.02 🤪
If you read A.R.S. § 16-103(E) it sounds so ridiculous that Kamala Harris probably wrote it.
Thank you for the reference. One would think that reporters would do the same in their articles; alas, that’s rarely the case.
IMO, (E) sounds like it was intended to let voting-age children of service members vote in AZ. While laudable in theory, in practice I agree that one shouldn’t have a vote when one doesn’t feel the consequences of that vote – don’t live here, don’t vote here.
Why don’t you state this was a Republican sponsored bill and was passed unanimously in 2005 by a GOP controlled legislature? Context matters when the Republicans are claiming Dems cheat — it’s a GOP bill!
Why does it matter who wrote the bill? Let’s just fix it.
AMEN! You’ can’t fix stupid – well in this instance YOU CAN! So FIX IT… NExT!
There’s more to this than this is I’m sure – how did this pass muster then? Seems like some bad math occurred in this ‘issue’ so – fix the math – gather the real intent and FIX THIS PROBLEM – did we EVER figure out who won the election ? The rest of the nation can get it done in a day… Arizona ran out of fingers to count on.
Regardless of who authored the bill, democrats cheat and that’s a fact. Otherwise we would have the correct governor and Attorney General, not the crooks fraudulently squatting in those offices.