U.S. attorney tells AZ officials feds won’t back down on scouring voter data for noncitizens

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes asked U.S. Attorney Timothy Courchaine to confirm that voter data obtained from the state Senate wasn't being used to hunt noncitizen voters, warning they'd sue if it were. Courchaine responded that the data, pulled via a March FBI subpoena tied to the state Senate's failed 2020 election fraud audit, was turned over to the FBI and isn't being misused, while also asking Fontes to simply hand over voter rolls directly to sidestep future subpoenas.

Fontes' office refused, saying it will not disclose voter rolls to the Department of Justice absent a court order, citing state and federal privacy law. Courchaine cited a recent Supreme Court ruling allowing federal use of the SAVE database, originally built to verify immigrants' legal status for public benefits, to check voter rolls.

Context undercuts the urgency: a Maricopa County Attorney's Office review of 270 flagged potential noncitizens found only eight who had actually voted, with no more than three ever voting in a single election. Nationally, the administration's review has produced 160 arrests out of 211 million registered voters.

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