A volunteer poll observer and worker in Arizona’s Pima County claimed she was told by election officials to allow people to vote who may not have been properly registered to vote in Arizona on Election Day.
“I was having to allow people to vote who literally had just moved here. A large percentage had addresses from two apartment complexes,” Anna Orth told GOP Arizona State legislators on Monday.
Orth remarked that “many” of these individuals were “residents for not more than a month,” adding that during her time as a poll observer, she estimated that about 2,000 people appeared to be out-of-state voters.
Orth did not say the name of the polling station that she observed. Trump’s team has not responded to a request for comment.
According to Pima County’s elections website, people can vote if they have “live[d] within Pima County at least 29 days prior to the general election.”
These people, she said, had “out-of-state drivers licenses” but attempted to show proof they could vote by presenting an “electric bill” or another kind of bill that suggested they lived in the precinct.
Christopher J. Roads, the chief deputy recorder in Pima County, told the Epoch Times that “under Arizona law, a voter who is registered in one precinct but has moved without updating their address, is required to vote by provisional ballot at the polling place for their new address even if they just recently moved.”
Roads further noted that in the state, anyone who shows up at a polling place “is permitted to cast a provisional ballot” if they’re eligible.
“If the vote is valid, the envelope will be opened and the ballot counted. If the voter is not eligible to vote at that site, the ballot is invalid and the envelope remains sealed and the ballot is never counted,” he explained.
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“I was having to allow people to vote who literally had just moved here. A large percentage had addresses from two apartment complexes,” Anna Orth told GOP Arizona State legislators on Monday.
Orth remarked that “many” of these individuals were “residents for not more than a month,” adding that during her time as a poll observer, she estimated that about 2,000 people appeared to be out-of-state voters.
Orth did not say the name of the polling station that she observed. Trump’s team has not responded to a request for comment.
According to Pima County’s elections website, people can vote if they have “live[d] within Pima County at least 29 days prior to the general election.”
These people, she said, had “out-of-state drivers licenses” but attempted to show proof they could vote by presenting an “electric bill” or another kind of bill that suggested they lived in the precinct.
Christopher J. Roads, the chief deputy recorder in Pima County, told the Epoch Times that “under Arizona law, a voter who is registered in one precinct but has moved without updating their address, is required to vote by provisional ballot at the polling place for their new address even if they just recently moved.”
Roads further noted that in the state, anyone who shows up at a polling place “is permitted to cast a provisional ballot” if they’re eligible.
“If the vote is valid, the envelope will be opened and the ballot counted. If the voter is not eligible to vote at that site, the ballot is invalid and the envelope remains sealed and the ballot is never counted,” he explained.
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