Ten secretaries of state have written a letter to the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security with concerns about how voter information they were asked to submit will be used.
We talk with Arizona’s Secretary of State Adrian Fontes about the letter and the implications for midterms.
Editor’s note: In a statement, Matthew Tragesser, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said, “USCIS remains dedicated to eliminating barriers to securing the nation’s electoral process, By allowing states to efficiently verify voter eligibility, we are reinforcing the principle that America’s elections are reserved exclusively for American citizens. We encourage all federal, state, and local agencies to use the SAVE program.”
The Department of Justice also responded with a statement: “Clean voter rolls and basic election safeguards are requisites for free, fair, and transparent elections,” said Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for the department’s Civil Rights Division. “The DOJ Civil Rights Division has a statutory mandate to enforce our federal voting rights laws, and ensuring the voting public’s confidence in the integrity of our elections is a top priority of this administration.”
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