The Secretary of State in the first, and the Maricopa County Attorney in the second, either determined or referred for investigation 125 combined cases of noncitizen voting, from more than 20 million registered voters.
‘American elections are accessible, secure, and accurate. We should be proud. Nonetheless, we should continue to improve American elections. And we should have conversations about documented proof of citizenship.’
This time, an independent auditing agency acted at the instruction of the state legislature, providing new perspective — and familiar results.
The efforts of the Yavapai County Recorder’s office will likely help bolster trust in its elections, but it offers some useful information for officials and voters in other jurisdictions, too.
The R Street Institute has released an election law tracker and rating system that is thorough and fair.
We’re giving the term ‘election integrity’ some criteria and a 50-state tool to track them, striving to be as fair and accurate as possible.
A judge determined that using a federal data tool for verifying voters’ citizenship status was beyond its lawful purpose. But the existence of such a mechanism might fill a need.
Inaccurate characterizations of a very real error obscure what the public should know about how it gets fixed.