Highlights
- Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes called a federal citizenship verification mandate unconstitutional at a Chicago panel Tuesday.
- A UC San Diego survey found 60% of Americans trust midterm vote counts, a 17-point drop since the 2024 presidential election.
- Mississippi Sen. Jeremy England's citizenship verification bill, using the federal SAVE system, is on hold pending a legal challenge.
- Academic studies and the Heritage Foundation have documented fewer than 100 noncitizen voting cases in the past 25 years.
A bipartisan panel of lawmakers and election administrators meeting Tuesday in Chicago surfaced the sharpest tensions in American election policy: how to expand ballot access while rebuilding public confidence that has eroded sharply since 2024.
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, told the panel that roughly 80% of Arizona voters cast absentee ballots. New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan, a Republican, administers a state where fewer than 1 in 10 voters use mail ballots. Fontes argued that any federal mandate requiring new voters to prove citizenship before registering would be unconstitutional, citing the Constitution's delegation of election authority to the states.
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