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By Howard Fischer | AZ Capitol Times
The state’s chief election official has a message for the Department of Justice: We don’t need to be reminded to follow laws that ensure only citizens cast ballots in Arizona.
“Arizona has a long history of adherence to voter registration requirements,” Adrian Fontes wrote Monday in a letter to William Mohrman, an attorney in the agency’s Civil Rights Division. “Indeed, Arizona has required those registering to vote to provide satisfactory evidence of United States citizenship for more than two decades.”
This came a week after Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who is Mohrman’s boss, sent a letter to Fontes threatening to prosecute election workers in Arizona who knowingly leave noncitizens on voter rolls or facilitate them receiving and casting ballots.
