A large-scale voter registration “glitch” saw almost 100,000 people in Arizona included on voter rolls without providing their proof of citizenship.
The Washington Post obtained the audio of a phone call between Governor Katie Hobbs, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, and Attorney General Kris Mayes.
Attorney General Mayes called it an “urgent, dire situation” and expressed concern that they would be accused of trying to rig the 2024 election.
“When this goes public, it is going to have all of the conspiracy theorists in the globe—in the world—coming back to re-litigate the past three elections, at least in Arizona,” Hobbs said.
“And it’s going to validate all of their theories about illegal voting in our elections, even though we all know that’s not true.”
The phone call took place on 10 September.
At the time, it was believed that 150,000 voters were affected. However, this was later was revised to 100,000.
The biggest proportion of voters affected were Republicans.
During the 40-minute phone call, the three officials engage in a desperate debate over how to respond to the problem without disqualifying citizens who are eligible to vote.
During the conversation, Fontes said, “They’re going to beat us up no matter what the hell we do, no matter what the hell we say.”
During the 2020 election, Arizona was the second closest state with Biden carrying the state by around 11,000 votes or 0.3%.
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