In a meeting riddled with false accusations of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election, Republican senators approved bills in the Senate Government Committee to increase the monitoring of voter registration rolls and purge more voters from the voting rolls.
Arizona was among the states that pioneered mail-in voting, and it has allowed voters to automatically receive early ballots for about two decades. In 2020, 89% of voters used an early ballot to cast their votes. But conservatives unhappy with the election’s outcome argue the method is faulty because it allows felons and undocumented immigrants to evade detection and cast illegal ballots — allegations for which they have no proof and which aren’t backed up by decades of early voting in Arizona.
Others have claimed that ballots erroneously sent to the residences of voters who have since moved or died are filled out by the new residents and then counted. In Arizona, voters must sign an affidavit that is returned with early ballots. Elections officials, who receive professional training in signature verification, match those signatures to the ones on file for each voter.
To address the issue of under revised voter rolls, Flagstaff GOP Sen. Wendy Rogers wants to tighten the review process. Currently, county recorders verify the addresses of registered voters by May 1, in preparation for the next year’s primary or general election. If voters are found to have moved but remain within the county, their...
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