Swing State to Partner With DHS to Remove Names From Voter Rolls

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published Apr 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM EDT


Counties in Arizona, a state that flipped to President Donald Trump in last year's election after narrowly supporting former President Joe Biden in 2020, have agreed to work with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to review their voter rolls and verify the citizenship status of voters, according to court documents reviewed by Newsweek. Newsweek has reached out to a legal representative for the plaintiff and defendant as well as the DHS press team for comment via email on Sunday.

Why It Matters

Republicans have long sought stricter voter registration guidelines, saying that it would prevent voter fraud. The Republican-led House on Friday passed the SAVE Act, which stands for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, and, if it becomes law, would impose new federal requirements for proving citizenship when registering to vote.

Critics have pushed back on various voting eligibility and requirement proposals, saying there's little evidence of widespread voter fraud and new measures would make it more difficult for some Americans to vote. While some U.S. jurisdictions permit noncitizens to vote in certain local elections, only U.S. citizens, not illegal immigrants or visa holders, are eligible to vote in federal elections.

Arizona borders Mexico, making immigration a frequent focus of policy discussions. In 2024, director of race and ethnicity research at Pew Research Center, Mark Hugo Lopez, estimated around "250,000 undocumented immigrants live in Arizona," which is around 3.5 percent of Arizonans. Trump has pledged to launch the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history. The state, and Maricopa County in particular, have been at the center of voter fraud claims in recent years, especially after Trump lost the county in 2020, fueling widespread debate and misinformation about voter fraud, which there was no substantial evidence of.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/arizona-partner-dhs-remove-names-voter-rolls-2059210

[LS_Editor]

1. Disgusting.

They know if they allow everyone eligible to vote to actually vote that is very bad for them.

[democrank]

2. Republicans in Congress know the truth about election fraud.

Their goal of suppressing the vote is chilling. Republicans are willing to let treason slide while they concentrate on doing everything in their power to stop Americans who disagree with them from voting.

How Un-American.

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. And yet, they are still in charge and still considered a viable party.

As opposed to a 'terrorist organization'... something they have been trying to connect to the Democrats for a very long time.

[Lonestarblue]

4. How many Native Americans will now be disenfranchised because they lack birth certificates?

The right wing has treated them as non-citizens for decades. And, of course, many women may not be able to vote if they can’t provide multiple documents showing their married names.

[jalan48]

5. This is how Trump and his cabal will stay in power permanently.

You fix the game before it starts to insure you get the outcome you want.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. At least with the state working with DHS there may be some scrutiny.

I say that because the fed has a new policy of wiping away entire blocks of voters depending on anything from ethnicity to age.
Hopefully Arizona will examine each case individually instead of voiding everyone named Rodrigo who asked for an absentee ballot.

I don't mind clearing the roles of deceased or ineligible people as long as they aren't just deleting them all and waiting for them to come forward to defend their right to vote.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. In this case, the article said "Counties" and not necessarily "the state"

I.e., you may have a bunch of red counties in there who will attempt to disenfranchise all kinds of people who can legally vote.

Before the election last year, a state court mandated some data releases - Court orders Arizona to release list of voters whose citizenship hasn’t been verified

after a request to not wholesale disenfranchise voters - GOP, Fontes ask AZ Supreme Court not to disenfranchise 97,000 improperly registered voters

Around this time, the feds declined to get involved - Federal Judge Denies Right-Wing Challenge to Arizona Voter Roll Maintenance Practices

I don't know what the current take is from the state level on this... (trying to find something).

[Icanthinkformyself]

7. The Republicans

are concerned that the algorithms installed in the voting machines may not work the next time and gerrymandering doesn't always get the results they schemed. Try to convince me that the Convicted Felon won in '24. He did not. He's admitted it before and after. Why did the Democratic Party just walk away without so much as a WTF!!! And, the 'assassination attempts'?? Just more WTF!!! Those 'stories' disappeared immediately, as if the media didn't want to know the truth. It's all a phucked up 'reality show' for the ignorant masses. And, what's left of our government is collapsing into appeasement mode, just like that European country did in 1932. The reaction of the 'authorities' during this summer's protests and marches will be the tell of which way matters will fall. Either they fall on the oligarchs or they fall on US.

[AZLD4Candidate]

9. Pinal, Mohave, Greenlee, Cochise, La Paz, Graham, Yavapai, and Gila counties no doubt.

Maricopa, Coconino, Pima, and Santa Cruz would have none of this nonsense.

Navajo, Apache, and Yuma might.

[GoreWon2000]

10. I'm surprised dem AZ Sec. of State would do this

since he announced he was running for re-election next year and also especially since the SAVE act is blatantly unconstitutitonal.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. I am trying to find something but I don't think he is participating in this per se

It sounds like certain "counties" and I think this is to comply with a state court order posted about upthread - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3440328