Recorder’s Office Identifies 60 Non-Citizens Who Previously Voted in Maricopa County Using Federal SAVE database

[DonGlock26]

"Recorder’s Office Identifies 60 Non-Citizens Who Previously Voted in Maricopa County Using Federal SAVE database
February 13, 2026

PHOENIX, AZ – As part of an effort to confirm full ballot eligibility for 61,681 Maricopa County voters affected by the “MVD-DPOC” issue, the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office conducted a review of these records using the federal SAVE database.

That review confirmed U.S. citizenship and full ballot eligibility for 58,782 voters. Those individuals’ registrations have already been updated to ensure they are able to receive a full ballot in future elections.

However, the review also identified 137 registered voters who are not U.S. citizens. Of those, 60 individuals have voted in prior elections.

The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office is referring the identified non-citizens who have cast ballots to both the Arizona Attorney General’s Office and the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office for further review and any appropriate action.

Our office extends its appreciation to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem for expanding access to the SAVE database. We look forward to continued collaboration to ensure election integrity and that only eligible citizens participate in Maricopa County elections."

https://recorder.maricopa.gov/news/SAVE-Database.html

I thought non-citizens couldn't vote? How did they get ballots?

 

[kyzr]

We need to be sure our voter registration rolls are clear of fraudulent voters.

 

[DonGlock26]

We need to be sure our voter registration rolls are clear of fraudulent voters.

Operation Clean Sweep.

 

[Care4all]

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"Recorder’s Office Identifies 60 Non-Citizens Who Previously Voted in Maricopa County Using Federal SAVE database
February 13, 2026

PHOENIX, AZ – As part of an effort to confirm full ballot eligibility for 61,681 Maricopa County voters affected by the “MVD-DPOC” issue, the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office conducted a review of these records using the federal SAVE database.

That review confirmed U.S. citizenship and full ballot eligibility for 58,782 voters. Those individuals’ registrations have already been updated to ensure they are able to receive a full ballot in future elections.

However, the review also identified 137 registered voters who are not U.S. citizens. Of those, 60 individuals have voted in prior elections.

The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office is referring the identified non-citizens who have cast ballots to both the Arizona Attorney General’s Office and the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office for further review and any appropriate action.

Our office extends its appreciation to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem for expanding access to the SAVE database. We look forward to continued collaboration to ensure election integrity and that only eligible citizens participate in Maricopa County elections."

https://recorder.maricopa.gov/news/SAVE-Database.html

I thought non-citizens couldn't vote? How did they get ballots?

Awesome! All from a new database! And they were able to identify them as non citizens and the other 58,000 plus, as citizens, all....without making everyone carry or show their Papers! Technology is great, some times!

Looks like the Clerks with this new database, can verify citizenship without a birth certificate or Passport or Marriage certificate, having to be shown.....so why does the SAVE Act make it mandatory for the citizen to supply proof, when the election clerks can vet the applications for verification of citizenship, along with everything else they have to vet the applicants for......?

 

[DonGlock26]

Looks like the Clerks with this new database, can verify citizenship without a birth certificate or Passport or Marriage certificate, having to be shown.....

How do you know that?

 

[marvin martian]

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Awesome! All from a new database! And they were able to identify them as non citizens and the other 58,000 plus, as citizens, all....without making everyone carry or show their Papers! Technology is great, some times!

Looks like the Clerks with this new database, can verify citizenship without a birth certificate or Passport or Marriage certificate, having to be shown.....so why does the SAVE Act make it mandatory for the citizen to supply proof, when the election clerks can vet the applications for verification of citizenship, along with everything else they have to vet the applicants for......?

It's sad that you can't see how dumb your statement is.

Let’s say you're confirmed as a citizen by this process. Without voter ID, what's to stop me from showing up to vote using your name?

In fact, if you're so confident this will work, PM me your name and the precinct where you vote. Should be no problem, right, since you've already been "verified"?

 

[Billiejeens]

How do you know that?

Her echo chamber told her.

 

[busybee01]

"Recorder’s Office Identifies 60 Non-Citizens Who Previously Voted in Maricopa County Using Federal SAVE database
February 13, 2026

PHOENIX, AZ – As part of an effort to confirm full ballot eligibility for 61,681 Maricopa County voters affected by the “MVD-DPOC” issue, the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office conducted a review of these records using the federal SAVE database.

That review confirmed U.S. citizenship and full ballot eligibility for 58,782 voters. Those individuals’ registrations have already been updated to ensure they are able to receive a full ballot in future elections.

However, the review also identified 137 registered voters who are not U.S. citizens. Of those, 60 individuals have voted in prior elections.

The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office is referring the identified non-citizens who have cast ballots to both the Arizona Attorney General’s Office and the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office for further review and any appropriate action.

Our office extends its appreciation to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem for expanding access to the SAVE database. We look forward to continued collaboration to ensure election integrity and that only eligible citizens participate in Maricopa County elections."

https://recorder.maricopa.gov/news/SAVE-Database.html

I thought non-citizens couldn't vote? How did they get ballots?

Maricopa is run by Republicans. They are biased. The federal SAVE database is garbage.

 

[Augustine_]

"Recorder’s Office Identifies 60 Non-Citizens Who Previously Voted in Maricopa County Using Federal SAVE database
February 13, 2026

PHOENIX, AZ – As part of an effort to confirm full ballot eligibility for 61,681 Maricopa County voters affected by the “MVD-DPOC” issue, the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office conducted a review of these records using the federal SAVE database.

That review confirmed U.S. citizenship and full ballot eligibility for 58,782 voters. Those individuals’ registrations have already been updated to ensure they are able to receive a full ballot in future elections.

However, the review also identified 137 registered voters who are not U.S. citizens. Of those, 60 individuals have voted in prior elections.

The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office is referring the identified non-citizens who have cast ballots to both the Arizona Attorney General’s Office and the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office for further review and any appropriate action.

Our office extends its appreciation to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem for expanding access to the SAVE database. We look forward to continued collaboration to ensure election integrity and that only eligible citizens participate in Maricopa County elections."

https://recorder.maricopa.gov/news/SAVE-Database.html

I thought non-citizens couldn't vote? How did they get ballots?

We'll never hear about this again because the measly 60 people identified as having illegally voted will either be revealed as having legally voted or as having somehow voted in poorly run, and largely inconsequential, local elections such as an election for a school board member. This is always what happens.

 

[Care4all]

It's sad that you can't see how dumb your statement is.

Let’s say you're confirmed as a citizen by this process. Without voter ID, what's to stop me from showing up to vote using your name?

In fact, if you're so confident this will work, PM me your name and the precinct where you vote. Should be no problem, right, since you've already been "verified"?

You as the voter thief......How'd you get my name? Did you know what precinct I voted in? How'd you know I didn't vote already when you came in to illegally impersonate me to vote? Did you know my address when they asked you at the polling spot? Did you know what political party I was registered under when the polling person asked? Did your signature when told to sign in, match my voter registration signature on file? How'd you know the lady volunteer checking you in at the polling place, wasn't my mother, aunt, or sister or neighbor, and would catch you red handed?

When you vote in places that do not require a govt issued picture ID, and no ID required at all, not even an electric bill with name and address, the polling person asks questions that only the voter would know easily.....and gets your signature to match it up with their file sig.


Impersonating another person at the polling place, doesn't happen.

Without a govt pictured ID or with one....it simply is too risky to get caught in person and be charged with a felony.

 

[Care4all]

We'll never hear about this again because the measly 60 people identified as having illegally voted will either be revealed as having legally voted or as having somehow voted in poorly run, and largely inconsequential, local elections such as an election for a school board member. This is always what happens.

Or they recently became naturalized but the records failed to show that.....

 

[citygator]

No names provided. No details. Just "take our word for it". Suuuuuuurrrrrreeeeeeee.

 

[scruffy]

When you vote in places that do not require a govt issued picture ID, and no ID required at all, not even an electric bill with name and address, the polling person asks questions that only the voter would know easily.....

Like, what's your name?

The polling person doesn't ask. If you tell them your name is Paco Paso, they'll show you a screen and say "which of these addresses is yours". Then you point to one, and you can vote.

and gets your signature to match it up with their file sig.

There is no file sig. Everything is electronic. When you sign, you sign electronically. It's not expected to match up.

Impersonating another person at the polling place, doesn't happen.

Yes it does. I've seen it with my own eyes.

Without a govt pictured ID or with one....it simply is too risky to get caught in person and be charged with a felony.

There are no cops at polling places. No one's going to arrest you. The worst they can do is turn you away.

 

[DonGlock26]

We'll never hear about this again because the measly 60 people identified as having illegally voted will either be revealed as having legally voted or as having somehow voted in poorly run, and largely inconsequential, local elections such as an election for a school board member. This is always what happens.

 

[DonGlock26]

Maricopa is run by Republicans. They are biased. The federal SAVE database is garbage.

They are McCain Machine Rinos.

 

[Care4all]

Like, what's your name?

The polling person doesn't ask. If you tell them your name is Paco Paso, they'll show you a screen and say "which of these addresses is yours". Then you point to one, and you can vote.



There is no file sig. Everything is electronic. When you sign, you sign electronically. It's not expected to match up.



Yes it does. I've seen it with my own eyes.



There are no cops at polling places. No one's going to arrest you. The worst they can do is turn you away.

When I lived in Massachusetts, before they had voter ID......(about 20 years ago)

FIRST before an election the State mailed postcards to all registered voters at the address on their files and the voter, has to mail back that postcard to verify they are still living and at that address. If they do not get the postcard back, you are taken off the voter roster.

When you went in to vote the polling clerk asked you, what party you belonged to, and then your name, then your address....then asked you to sign on paper and she took that signature and compared it to her file signature.....

Then you were let in to vote if it all matched up. And we voted paper ballots....

The system they had worked.

In person, voter impersonation just doesn't happen and I don't believe you saw it, explain it to me....

if your going to cheat in an election, it won't be that manner.... unless one is a real idiot begging to become a felon.

Maine, where I live now, still requires no ID at all, EXCEPT the first time you are voting after registering to vote in that district, then you must show ID,
after that, no ID is required....but our voting places where I am at.... are real real tiny tiny, and everyone...absolutely everyone, knows everyone, (and who's dating whom, and who cheated on wife, and who's kid went off to college, and who had a great gardening harvest ty....even if you don't see the neighbors in months or years, word gets around.) No one could impersonate another person on the voting roster...after the initial presentation of ones ID, it really isn't needed....

Every state is different with different methods of running it, securely for their needs....Maine with 1 million citizens is not going to be like Florida, with almost 25 million.

 

[Care4all]

How do you know that?

Says so in your article, more or less.

Through using this new SAVE Act database, the audit of existing registered voters, they were able to verify that 58000 are citizens and 60 were noncitizens, (that voted)

The election clerks now have a database which they can vet applicants for citizenship....