There are 1,348 Voters Age 101+ On Arizona’s Voter Rolls Right Now

If proper maintenance is the bedrock of accurate voter rolls, Arizona counties are standing on shifting sand

Hey, maybe it’s something in the water. Or maybe they just don’t make ‘em like they used to.

Analysis by Restoration News found over 1,300 registered voters born between 1902 and 1923 still active on Arizona’s voter rolls, raising doubts about the accuracy of the Grand Canyon State’s voter file under the notoriously partisan Democratic Sec. of State, Adrian Fontes.

Nearly half of these individuals are ages 101–102. Much less plausible are the 167 registered voters born during World War I (1914–1918) or the 34 voters between 114 and 122 years old, when Teddy Roosevelt was president.

Most of the oldest voters on this list don’t have a voting history. But as active voters, they could lawfully cast a ballot—and some do. Two voters born in 1915, for example, voted in the 2024 Arizona presidential primary, potentially their 24th presidential election since turning 18. How many actually remain alive is an open question—one that Arizona counties are supposed to do their best to answer. They’re not.

Voting from Beyond the Grave

Few would suggest these Methuselan voters pose a concern for ballot fraud. But their continued presence strongly suggests counties aren’t properly following their own maintenance protocols meant to keep the voter rolls accurate.

The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993 requires states to maintain up-to-date lists of registered voters in order to speed up ballot processing, reduce voter confusion, and limit double-voting and election fraud. Dead voters on the registration rolls present an opportunity for someone—including a family member—to illegally vote in his or her name. Virginia’s Republican Elections Commissioner, Susan Beals, discovered close to 19,000 dead voters still on the books last April, prompting her to grant local registrars new authority to scrub dead voters from the rolls.

But how they determine accuracy is largely up to the states—which often face litigation from “progressive” activist groups and the Democrat-run Justice Department trying to stop them from scrubbing dead and ineligible voters from the rolls.

In 2013, for instance, President Obama’s Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder, with support from the union-backed A. Philip Randolph Institute, sued Ohio for attempting to clean its file of voters who had not voted in 4 years and failed to respond to a registration confirmation notice. It took the Supreme Court weighing 5–4 in Ohio’s favor to halt the predatory lawsuit, allowing the state to ultimately remove some 144,000 ineligible registrants over the next three years.

That includes non-citizens—here both legally and illegally—who wind up illegally registering to vote through the DMV, Democrats’ automatic voter registration policies, and other “errors.” While the Left pretends non-citizen voting is a non-issue, Virginia and Texas removed nearly 13,000 non-citizens from their respective rolls between 2022 and 2023, many of whom had illegally voted in past elections. Democrats, meanwhile, opposed a congressional bill (the SAVE Act) to require proof of U.S. citizenship before registering to vote and championed efforts to expand non-citizen voting in dozens of cities across America, including Washington, D.C., whose law is so expansive it allows Russian and Chinese embassy staff to vote in local elections.

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218,000 Causes for Concern

What is concerning is Democrats’ push to allow 218,000 voters who can’t prove their U.S. citizenship to vote in the November election under Sec. of State Fontes—or roughly 5 percent of the state’s registered voters.

Arizona law requires voters prove their citizenship when registering to vote in state and local races. In December, Fontes interpreted this to mean individuals who fail to prove their citizenship using the federal registration form may only vote in federal races, including U.S. Senate and President. That opens the door to tens of thousands of non-citizens and illegal aliens potentially meddling in the upcoming election.

The issue remains even when dealing with citizens who’ve failed to demonstrate U.S. citizenship. Earlier this year, a newly discovered 20-year-old glitch in Maricopa County’s election system revealed that 98,000 Arizonans who obtained their driver’s licenses before October 1996 and registered to vote after 2004—when the state’s proof of citizenship law took effect—were classified as “full-ballot” voters. However, these individuals had not properly verified their citizenship so should legally be classified as “federal-only” voters.

In late September, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the 98,000 voters must receive full ballots. A couple weeks later, Fontes then doubled those figures to 218,000 voters with unconfirmed citizenship.

While both Fontes and the state GOP believe these individuals are overwhelmingly U.S. citizens, the glitch was only discovered when a Maricopa election official found one of them is a non-citizen. The conservative litigation group America First Legal has sued for the full list of voters.

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