Voters in Virginia and Arizona sent letters to their states’ leading election officials on Tuesday, demanding they correct their jurisdictions’ allegedly inaccurate voter rolls in accordance with federal law.
Addressed to Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Virginia Commissioner of Elections Susan Beals, the letters — which are supported by the Honest Elections Project (HEP) — allege there are numerous localities in both states that are violating provisions of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). Passed in 1993, the NVRA mandates states make “a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters” — such as those who have died or moved — from their respective voter rolls.
In Arizona, the letter’s signatories claim a comparison of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2017-2021 American Community Survey “of citizen voting age population” with publicly available voter roll data shows “at least four counties have more registered voters than adult citizens over the age of 18” and “nine counties … have voter registration rates that exceed 90 percent of adult citizens over the age of 18—a figure that far eclipses the voter registration rate nationwide in recent elections.”
The letter additionally notes there is one county with a voter registration rate over 80 percent.
“Comparing the registered voter count to the 2017-2021 American Community Survey reveals that Apache (117.4%), La Paz (100.5%), Navajo (100.1%), and Santa Cruz (112.6%) Counties all have greater than 100% voter registration,” the letter reads. “In other words, there are more registered voters than eligible voters.”
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