Arizona AG rips Maricopa County election official over handling of non-citizen voting claims

An attorney from Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’ (D) office had to threaten Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, a known election denier, with legal action in order for him to hand over names of dozens of voters he claims are non-citizens.

Heap is known for spreading false information about voter fraud and Arizona’s 2020 election results. When he announced in February that he had uncovered the names of 137 non-citizens registered to vote, Mayes’ office reminded him of his legal obligations to refer the names to her staff.

However, Heap just turned the names over today, as first reported by Votebeat, after Mayes’ office sent two letters reprimanding him for failing to follow legal procedures that say he should have turned them over to her office within 35 days. To find the names, Heap used the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, which is known to flagging eligible citizen voters as non-citizens.

This is just the latest example of Heap’s mishandling of elections administration processes, a pattern for which he’s been accused of working to undermine voter confidence.





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