{"id":1512245,"date":"2022-06-12T08:36:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T12:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1512245"},"modified":"2022-06-12T08:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T12:36:07","slug":"arizona-election-worker-details-voter-fraud-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-election-worker-details-voter-fraud-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Election Worker Details Voter Fraud Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-election-worker-details-voter-fraud-investigation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1512245&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The worker says the ongoing investigation is targeting US non-profits she believes are \u2018political advocacy groups\u2019<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In an exclusive interview given to The Epoch Times, the recorder at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-yuma-county\">Yuma County<\/a> Sherrif\u2019s Office offered more insights into the risks of fraudulent registration forms leading up to the 2022 Primary Election and the efforts she and her team are working on to improve the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur primary is Aug. 2. We have received registration forms that are fraudulently completed,\u201d Yuma County recorder Robyn Stallworth Pouquette, who provides oversight into the county\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-voter-registration\">voter registration<\/a> and early voting,\u00a0told The Epoch Times in an interview on June 7. \u201cIt\u2019s been a prevalent problem in Yuma County, and it\u2019s very unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pouquette\u2019s allegations come in addition to\u00a0other witness reports and allegations of voting fraud that are the subject of 16 open investigations at the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The observed \u201cpattern of fraudulent voter registration forms,\u201d according to a May 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yumacountysheriff.org\/pr-2022\/PR-2022-30-Yuma-County-Voting-Fraud.pdf\">statement<\/a> made by the sheriff\u2019s office, includes alleged impersonation fraud, false registrations, duplicate voting, and fraudulent use of absentee ballots.<\/p>\n<p>While Pouquette could not provide any names because the investigation is ongoing, she confirmed to The Epoch Times that many of the anomalous cases pertain to non-profits operating on a national scale, which she believes to be \u201cpolitical advocacy groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"morearticles\"><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"post_list\">\n<div class=\"article\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/election-integrity-group-unveils-findings-on-ballot-trafficking-in-arizona_4505771.html\">Election Integrity Group Unveils Findings on Ballot Trafficking in Arizona<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"article\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/to-ensure-trust-in-2024-election-re-register-all-voters-after-midterms-says-fraud-tracker_4441239.html\">To Ensure Trust in 2024 Election, Re-Register All Voters After Midterms, Says Fraud-Tracker<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely encouraged that the Yuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Recorder\u2019s Office are now working together to investigate individuals involved in the subversion of elections,\u201d Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of election integrity group True The Vote, told The Epoch Times in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/arizona-county-featured-in-2000-mules-investigating-voter-fraud-allegations_4465269.html?utm_source=ai&#038;utm_medium=search\">statement<\/a> in May. \u201cWe\u2019ve spent concentrated time in Yuma County and have provided significant information to both state and federal authorities. What has been happening in Yuma County is happening across the country. The targeting of vulnerable communities and voter abuse must be stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very difficult to identify who is submitting these fraudulent forms. But I am aware of activities of third-party groups and I shared that information with the sheriff\u2019s office,\u201d Pouquette said of what she\u2019s witnessed.<\/p>\n<h2>Unusual Signs<\/h2>\n<p>Pouquette said that while third-party organizations who solicit voter registrations serve an important role in assisting voters, they are also a point of vulnerability in the election process if the ballots they help voters submit are fraudulent\u2014due to intentional or unintentional misrepresentation of a voter\u2019s wishes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it\u2019s a vulnerability of the system, in the sense that fraudulent voter registrations can disrupt the legitimate active registration of an eligible voter,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is a very disruptive process for the office when we should be focusing on audits and making sure that we\u2019re auditing our records prior to the distribution of ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very passionate about it because there is no regulation that precludes voter registration activities [by] third-party groups,\u201d Pouquette said. \u201cI feel that voter registration solicitors should be held accountable to a higher standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After these third-party organizations drop the voter registration forms they\u2019ve collected at the recorder\u2019s office, Pouquette and her team would run them through a statewide database to cross-check the identifying information on each form to the voter.<\/p>\n<p>However, Pouquette said she\u2019s noticed unusual signs with some of the forms she\u2019s received.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could immediately see that there were individual names in those forms that were people that I knew were already registered. But they were utilizing real people\u2019s names with fake addresses and fake dates of birth,\u201d she said. \u201cOne of them was our pediatrician. One of them was a local attorney who I had been an acquaintance of and has passed away for some time. One was a minor that I believe was around the age of 14 \u2026 So it just became very clear that there was a problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then, we\u2019re getting five, six registration forms for the same person. As you can imagine, that\u2019s where we feel that there\u2019s an intentional effort to disrupt the system and identify vulnerabilities,\u201d Pouquette added.<\/p>\n<p>Pouquette said they\u2019ve noticed over 100 such anomalies in the registration process leading up to the 2022 primaries and have sent letters to each of the addresses indicated on the registration forms as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI simply find it unfortunate that it is a requirement because we know that we\u2019re sending them to people that we have a strong belief to be nonexistent,\u201d she said. \u201cWe should be working on credible, real registrations that we have in our county, as opposed to spending any time or resources\u2014which is actually significant time and resources\u2014on this type of activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>New Law Proposed<\/h2>\n<p>Pouquette added that after she noticed a pattern of fraudulent registration in 2016, she and her team began to work with the Arizona legislature to develop new laws to \u201cdefine parameters for regulation of voter registration solicitation.\u201d However, she said the efforts have been largely unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>She and her team, through the <a href=\"https:\/\/flinn.org\/civic-leadership\/programs\/flinn-brown-fellowship\/\">Flinn-Brown Fellowship<\/a>, put together provisions that Arizona Senate Republicans included in a bill introduced in February 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/AZ\/drafts\/SB1629\/2022\">SB1629<\/a>, which would hold third-party registration solicitors accountable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The bill] required that third-party registration solicitors turn in the forms within five days so that there\u2019s a timeframe on accountability and any fraudulent form be subjected to a class-6 felony,\u201d Pouquette said. \u201cAnd as you can imagine, it was very controversial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill also requires anyone collecting more than 25 voter registration forms to identify themselves with the Secretary of State\u2019s office so the recorder\u2019s office would have the ability to contact them for any issues with the forms they turned in. The bill failed its third reading in March and is set to be reconsidered for another reading in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to diminish the work that third-party groups do \u2026 to solicit voter registration. I believe that that\u2019s important and we should have groups that are able to do that. I just simply feel that we should place accountability measures that \u2026 professionalize the process to provide that trust to the community. I simply felt that it was a step in the right direction for accountability,\u201d she said of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I do believe that, again, the work that\u2019s put in\u2014to make every single effort to not allow these [fraudulent] registrations to turn into ballots\u2014is complicated and time-consuming, very, very straining on resources,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd these are the staff and election officials that should diligently be working on administering a secure election and not dealing with criminal activity like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018A Few Bad Actors\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Pouquette hoped to clarify that not all third-party groups that register voters are disruptive to the election process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo even a few bad actors, as you can imagine, contribute such a negative light on the process overall, which affects my office and the public trust in the electoral process \u2026 the other third-party groups that are making significant efforts to engage with voters and assist in, you know, the democratic process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always tell people they should be very proud to vote in Arizona, regardless of the negativity swirling around elections, because we work really hard. So I invite people in to see the process here from their ground floor to really understand what we do to verify and over verify and verify third time and audit. Those are just regular practices happening on a daily basis during the cycle here,\u201d Pouquette said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just really feel that that gets overlooked; you know, how bold election officials are, how brave they are, and doing this kind of work every single day, despite the critical response.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-gary-bai\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gary Bai is a reporter for Epoch Times Canada, covering China and U.S. news.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worker says the ongoing investigation is targeting US non-profits she believes are \u2018political advocacy groups\u2019In an exclusive interview given to The Epoch Times, the recorder at the Yuma County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}