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X owner Elon Musk is sounding the alarm for potential voter fraud in Arizona ahead of the 2024 presidential election, even if it annoys one of the state’s top election officials.
Over the past few weeks, Mr. Musk has used his X account to question the legitimacy of Arizona’s election infrastructure, claiming it lets illegal immigrants cast ballots. Last week, he claimed the state was refusing to remove migrants from its voter rolls.
They are refusing to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls https://t.co/Qv0iGHF9Dv
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 6, 2024
Mr. Musk was responding to a lawsuit from America First Legal, a conservative group suing all 15 Arizona counties to remove “illegals from their voter rolls.” While he took the group’s allegations as truth, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer rebuked the accusations.
“This is a lawsuit. You’re very familiar with them. Lawsuits can allege anything. An allegation is called an allegation because it has not been proven,” Mr. Richer posted on X. “Sadly, these lawsuits are no longer interested in actually winning. They’re just PR stunts that masquerade as lawsuits. They’re great fundraising devices. They get people fired up.”
Arizona requires proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.
Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, was the center of theories that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Joe Biden was the first Democratic candidate to win the county in decades and beat Donald Trump by 2%.
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