In Arizona’s 2020 presidential election, over 5,600 federal-only votes were cast; voters did not need to provide documentation of their U.S. citizenship in order to cast a ballot.
Learn about Arizona’s distinctive split elections, in which voters can participate in any election only if they can demonstrate their U.S. citizenship. Others are restricted to federal elections, which may result in prospective non-citizens casting ballots. Just the News highlights this irregularity in the voting process.
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Residents of Arizona, take note: Easily register to vote even if you don’t have citizenship documentation! You can now compete in federal contests without presenting identification as evidence of your U.S. citizenship, thanks to a Supreme Court decision. Don’t pass up the chance to speak up!
U.S. citizens, take notice! On federal voter registration papers, all that is required is a brief sworn declaration.
When you register to vote in Arizona or make adjustments to your registration, you may quickly confirm your citizenship. Your driver’s license data is analyzed by our sophisticated election system to ensure a smooth and effective operation.
According to the Associated Press, unregistered voters are not permitted to cast ballots in state elections. Their voting rights are limited to “federal-only” elections.
A stringent new regulation in Arizona requires counties to cross-reference many databases in order to confirm the citizenship of voters who may only vote federally. Federal petitions will be denied in the event that this criteria is not met. Any official who willfully breaks this legislation might also be charged with a crime.
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department said that the agency will file a lawsuit against Arizona in July 2022 over the measure, claiming it is a “textbook violation of the National Voter Registration Act.” Additionally, the agency claims that the act violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Jennifer Wright, the former assistant attorney general for Arizona, stated to Just the News on Thursday that she thinks Arizona is “one of the only states to have bifurcated elections” because, despite the fact that other states do so, the US Election Assistance Commission rejected the state’s request to impose a driver’s license requirement on voter registration.
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For county recorders, identifying non-citizens at the time of voter registration is an essential duty. Wright underlined the significance of cross-referencing names with the SAVE database maintained by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
The registration of non-citizens in the voter list has drawn criticism. State legislation (A.R.S. 16-183 and A.R.S. 16-169A) mandates recorders to strictly register residents and validate the voter list, even though there isn’t a surefire way to avoid this at the moment.
The naturalization process for non-citizens may be hampered if they register to vote prior to becoming citizens.
In fact, a study conducted earlier this year by the Public Interest Legal Foundation found that the most frequent explanation given by foreign nationals for admitting to being a voter is that “they want to remain in the United States as future naturalized citizens.”
When applying for citizenship, foreign immigrants are asked if they have prematurely registered to vote. The article states that if voter registration documents are available, “they are frequently ordered by immigration officials to have said records cancelled.”
According to a recent PILF report, since 2015, 222 foreign nationals in Maricopa County have had their voter registrations canceled. Remarkably, nine of these people were able to participate in four federal elections and cast ballots.
Find out which counties in Arizona submitted information on federal-only ballots and federal-only voter registrations for the elections of 2020 and 2022. Discover the perspectives of 13 of the 15 counties that provided Just the News with this important information.
Despite repeated requests, Apache County was unable to offer Just the News the information they needed. However, Cochise County told Just the News that their public records request for voter information and votes cast solely in federal courts was number 125 in line, allowing them to obtain the needed data.
But in accordance with state legislation, “the county recorder shall report to the secretary of state and shall prominently post on the recorder’s website the number of persons who are registered to vote using the federal or state voter registration form and who have not provided proof of citizenship to the county recorder and, after each general election, shall post on the recorder’s website the number of ballots cast by those persons who were eligible to vote a ballot containing federal offices only,” the report noted.
Find out the little-known facts regarding Arizona’s 2020 presidential contest. revealing the startling total of 5,697 votes cast only for federal office, with Maricopa County leading the way. Determine which counties accepted these ballots and which ones did not.
Ten,457 votes separated Trump and Biden in the state during the 2020 election.
Information on federal-only registered voters was provided to various counties by the data that were provided to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office around one month before to the elections. These figures include both active and inactive voters (referred to below as “all federal-only voters”). Active voters with federal-only registration came from other counties. If voting materials are sent to an address and are returned as undeliverable, the voter is classified as “inactive.”
Ahead of you is the voter data you have been anticipating, taken directly from the reliable Just the News report!
Apache County:
- All federal-only voters registered in 2020: 162
- All federal-only voters registered in 2022: 97
Cochise County:
- All federal-only voters registered in 2020: 288
- All federal-only voters registered in 2022: 297
Coconino County:
- Federal-only ballots accepted and counted in 2020: 335
- Federal-only ballots accepted and counted in 2022: 116
- All federal-only voters registered in 2020: 2,381
- All federal-only voters registered in 2022: 2,841
Gila County:
- Federal-only ballots cast and accepted in 2020: 23
- Federal-only ballots cast and accepted in 2022: 5
- All federal-only voters registered in 2020: 88
- All federal-only voters registered in 2022: 67
Graham County:
- Federal-only ballots cast and counted in 2020: 8
- Federal-only ballots cast and counted in 2022: 5
- All federal-only voters registered in 2020: 40
- All federal-only voters registered in 2022: 45
Greenlee County:
- Federal-only ballots cast in 2020 and accepted: 4
- Federal-only ballots cast in 2022 and accepted: 1
- All federal-only voters registered in 2020: 9
- All federal-only voters registered in 2022: 6
La Paz County:
- Federal-only ballots cast in 2020: 11
- Federal-only ballots cast in 2022: 0
- All federal-only voters registered in 2020: 27
- All federal-only voters registered in 2022: 16
Maricopa County:
- Federal-only ballots cast in 2020: 8,114, with 4,484 of those accepted and counted
- Federal-only ballots cast in 2022: 2,749
- Federal-only voters registered in 2020: 14,298
- All federal-only voters registered in 2022: 27,441
Mohave County:
- Federal-only ballots cast in 2020: 257
- Federal-only ballots cast in 2022: 80
- All federal-only voters registered in 2020: 707
- All federal-only voters registered in 2022: 484
Navajo County:
- Federal-only ballots cast and counted in 2020: 14
- Federal-only ballots cast and counted in 2022: 2
- Federal-only voters registered in 2020: 46
- Federal-only voters registered in 2022: 82
Pima County:
- Federal-only voters in 2020: 1,942
- Federal-only ballots cast in 2022: 27 provisional and conditional provisional ballots counted
- All federal-only voters registered in 2020: 7,211
- All federal-only voters registered in 2022: 9,095
Pinal County:
- Federal-only ballots accepted and counted in 2020: 96
- Federal-only ballots accepted and counted in 2022: 49
- All federal-only voters registered in 2020: 1,369
- All federal-only voters registered in 2022: 1,233
Santa Cruz County:
- Federal-only ballots cast in 2020: 7
- Federal-only ballots cast in 2022: 5
- Federal-only voters registered in 2020: 30
- Federal-only voters registered in 2022: 30
Yavapai County:
- Federal-only ballots cast and accepted in 2020: 279
- Federal-only ballots cast and accepted in 2022: 63
- Federal-only voters registered in 2020: 509
- Federal-only voters registered in 2022: 226
Yuma County:
- Federal-only ballots cast in 2020: 179
- Federal-only ballots cast in 2022: 53
- Federal-only voters registered in 2020: 333
- Federal-only voters registered in 2022: 403




