Huge victory for election integrity! The Supreme Court granted @TheJusticeDept’s stay in revamping the SAVE citizenship verification database, which will allow states to clear the voter rolls of illegal voters. The modified SAVE system allows state and local officials to conduct citizenship verification of registered voters to keep aliens from voting. The Justice Department will continue fighting in court for secure elections. Every American should want this!

MORE PAY TO PLAY? Internal emails reveal that @KrisMayes's campaign fundraiser "sought action from senior officials in her office on an internship request for a campaign donor's son." californiaglobe.com/fr/exclu…

Adrian Fontes is lying. Secretary Fontes blamed the DOJ for more than a year of missing federal felony reports. I spoke with DOJ officials directly who have confirmed that all reports through the first quarter of 2026 have been previously provided to the AzSOS. Additionally, in response to my release, the DOJ sent the files for the second quarter of 2026 to the SOS this morning. By law, the DOJ can only provided these files to the Secretary of State. Secretary Fontes now needs to provide those reports to the County Recorders so we can ensure felons are not permitted to vote in this comming election.

RECORDER HEAP: SECRETARY OF STATE’S FAILURE TO PROVIDE FELONY RECORDS JEOPARDIZES VOTER REGISTRATION LIST MAINTENANCE AHEAD OF GENERAL ELECTION PHOENIX, Arizona — Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap is calling on Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to immediately address his office’s failure to provide county recorders with timely, complete, and usable federal felony-conviction data as Arizona approaches the November General Election. This announcement follows months of administrative outreach and technical follow-up by county election officials to resolve the issue. Under A.R.S. § 16-165(A)(4), county recorders are required to cancel the registration of electors convicted of a felony who have not had their civil rights restored. To carry out that responsibility, recorders depend on the Secretary of State to obtain and provide critical voter-eligibility information from state and federal agencies. When the Secretary fails to provide that information, county recorders cannot identify and cancel every ineligible registration the law requires them to cancel. One of those critical sources is federal felony-conviction data obtained by the Secretary of State from the U.S. Department of Justice. The most recent federal felony report received by the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office covers only the second quarter of 2025. That leaves more than a year of federal felony conviction data unavailable to the Recorder’s Office as it conducts list maintenance ahead of the General Election. The problem is not limited to the missing 2025 and 2026 data. The federal felony records provided by the Secretary contain sizable gaps dating back to 2022, and the Secretary’s Office has been unwilling or unable to confirm that the records it has provided are complete. Even when felony records are provided, the Secretary of State fails to provide them in the proper electronic format and import them into the statewide voter registration system as required by his own Election Procedures Manual. Instead, the Secretary only provides static statewide PDF reports, bypassing the automated hard match system and forcing Recorder staff to manually identify Maricopa County records, cross-reference them, and manually enter the information one record at a time. Bypassing the automated imports destroys statewide uniformity across Arizona’s 15 counties under federal law (52 U.S.C. § 20507(b)(1)) by forcing each county to implement ad hoc manual workarounds. What should be routine voter-registration maintenance has instead become a labor-intensive manual process. “This is not a minor administrative delay. It is a failure that directly affects our ability to keep the voter rolls accurate,” said Recorder Heap. “Arizona law requires my office to cancel the registration when we receive qualifying felony-conviction information. But we cannot remove an ineligible elector we have not been told about. The Secretary of State has allowed the federal felony data to fall years behind, cannot assure us that prior records are complete, and has made the limited records we do receive harder to process.” “With the General Election approaching, this needs to be fixed now. County recorders are prepared to do our job. The Secretary of State needs to do his.” The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office is calling on the Secretary of State to immediately obtain and provide complete and current federal felony-conviction data from the Department of Justice, account for the gaps in previously provided records, confirm that the information supplied to county recorders is complete and current, and restore the automated electronic import process into the statewide voter registration system to ensure uniformity and accurate list maintenance.

RECORDER HEAP: SECRETARY OF STATE’S FAILURE TO PROVIDE FELONY RECORDS JEOPARDIZES VOTER REGISTRATION LIST MAINTENANCE AHEAD OF GENERAL ELECTION PHOENIX, Arizona — Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap is calling on Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to immediately address his office’s failure to provide county recorders with timely, complete, and usable federal felony-conviction data as Arizona approaches the November General Election. This announcement follows months of administrative outreach and technical follow-up by county election officials to resolve the issue. Under A.R.S. § 16-165(A)(4), county recorders are required to cancel the registration of electors convicted of a felony who have not had their civil rights restored. To carry out that responsibility, recorders depend on the Secretary of State to obtain and provide critical voter-eligibility information from state and federal agencies. When the Secretary fails to provide that information, county recorders cannot identify and cancel every ineligible registration the law requires them to cancel. One of those critical sources is federal felony-conviction data obtained by the Secretary of State from the U.S. Department of Justice. The most recent federal felony report received by the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office covers only the second quarter of 2025. That leaves more than a year of federal felony conviction data unavailable to the Recorder’s Office as it conducts list maintenance ahead of the General Election. The problem is not limited to the missing 2025 and 2026 data. The federal felony records provided by the Secretary contain sizable gaps dating back to 2022, and the Secretary’s Office has been unwilling or unable to confirm that the records it has provided are complete. Even when felony records are provided, the Secretary of State fails to provide them in the proper electronic format and import them into the statewide voter registration system as required by his own Election Procedures Manual. Instead, the Secretary only provides static statewide PDF reports, bypassing the automated hard match system and forcing Recorder staff to manually identify Maricopa County records, cross-reference them, and manually enter the information one record at a time. Bypassing the automated imports destroys statewide uniformity across Arizona’s 15 counties under federal law (52 U.S.C. § 20507(b)(1)) by forcing each county to implement ad hoc manual workarounds. What should be routine voter-registration maintenance has instead become a labor-intensive manual process. “This is not a minor administrative delay. It is a failure that directly affects our ability to keep the voter rolls accurate,” said Recorder Heap. “Arizona law requires my office to cancel the registration when we receive qualifying felony-conviction information. But we cannot remove an ineligible elector we have not been told about. The Secretary of State has allowed the federal felony data to fall years behind, cannot assure us that prior records are complete, and has made the limited records we do receive harder to process.” “With the General Election approaching, this needs to be fixed now. County recorders are prepared to do our job. The Secretary of State needs to do his.” The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office is calling on the Secretary of State to immediately obtain and provide complete and current federal felony-conviction data from the Department of Justice, account for the gaps in previously provided records, confirm that the information supplied to county recorders is complete and current, and restore the automated electronic import process into the statewide voter registration system to ensure uniformity and accurate list maintenance.

RECORDER HEAP: SECRETARY OF STATE’S FAILURE TO PROVIDE FELONY RECORDS JEOPARDIZES VOTER REGISTRATION LIST MAINTENANCE AHEAD OF GENERAL ELECTION PHOENIX, Arizona — Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap is calling on Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to immediately address his office’s failure to provide county recorders with timely, complete, and usable federal felony-conviction data as Arizona approaches the November General Election. This announcement follows months of administrative outreach and technical follow-up by county election officials to resolve the issue. Under A.R.S. § 16-165(A)(4), county recorders are required to cancel the registration of electors convicted of a felony who have not had their civil rights restored. To carry out that responsibility, recorders depend on the Secretary of State to obtain and provide critical voter-eligibility information from state and federal agencies. When the Secretary fails to provide that information, county recorders cannot identify and cancel every ineligible registration the law requires them to cancel. One of those critical sources is federal felony-conviction data obtained by the Secretary of State from the U.S. Department of Justice. The most recent federal felony report received by the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office covers only the second quarter of 2025. That leaves more than a year of federal felony conviction data unavailable to the Recorder’s Office as it conducts list maintenance ahead of the General Election. The problem is not limited to the missing 2025 and 2026 data. The federal felony records provided by the Secretary contain sizable gaps dating back to 2022, and the Secretary’s Office has been unwilling or unable to confirm that the records it has provided are complete. Even when felony records are provided, the Secretary of State fails to provide them in the proper electronic format and import them into the statewide voter registration system as required by his own Election Procedures Manual. Instead, the Secretary only provides static statewide PDF reports, bypassing the automated hard match system and forcing Recorder staff to manually identify Maricopa County records, cross-reference them, and manually enter the information one record at a time. Bypassing the automated imports destroys statewide uniformity across Arizona’s 15 counties under federal law (52 U.S.C. § 20507(b)(1)) by forcing each county to implement ad hoc manual workarounds. What should be routine voter-registration maintenance has instead become a labor-intensive manual process. “This is not a minor administrative delay. It is a failure that directly affects our ability to keep the voter rolls accurate,” said Recorder Heap. “Arizona law requires my office to cancel the registration when we receive qualifying felony-conviction information. But we cannot remove an ineligible elector we have not been told about. The Secretary of State has allowed the federal felony data to fall years behind, cannot assure us that prior records are complete, and has made the limited records we do receive harder to process.” “With the General Election approaching, this needs to be fixed now. County recorders are prepared to do our job. The Secretary of State needs to do his.” The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office is calling on the Secretary of State to immediately obtain and provide complete and current federal felony-conviction data from the Department of Justice, account for the gaps in previously provided records, confirm that the information supplied to county recorders is complete and current, and restore the automated electronic import process into the statewide voter registration system to ensure uniformity and accurate list maintenance.

Both candidates said they would support more ed funding. @AZTreasurerYee said she would support an extension of Prop 123. However, state Sen. @JakeHoffmanAZ -- who recruited Yee -- has killed efforts to put Prop 123 on the ballot. Yee has paid at least $121k to a Hoffman firm.