1. Per Prop 211 passed in 2022, the disclosure must declare the top 3 individual donors behind dark money. Instead, this mailer discloses only the dark money organizations.
Of the organizations listed as funding the mailer, “democracyFirst” is an anti-Conservative organization led in Arizona by former drug cartel lawyer & the current radical Democrat Secretary of State Adrian Fontes.
Democrat Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is listed on the democracyFirst website as leading the Arizona coalition.
BACKGROUND: Voters in the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors District 2 recently received a mailer paid for by Solutions for Arizona with an endorsement from the Arizona Police Association broadly displayed on it. The mailer says it was funded from major sources including the Greater Phoenix Leadership Inc., the Committee for Arizona Leadership, and democracyFirst. The mailer contained mostly misinformation. We fact checked the information on the mailer and the funding sources because we believe educated voters are empowered to vote their conscience. EZAZ.org does not endorse or oppose candidates or ballot initiatives. We are a source of voter education.
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2. CrimeGrade.org rates Maricopa County with an “F” score on Overall Crime Grade. According to CrimeGrade.org, "The F grade means the rate of crime is much higher than the average US county. Maricopa County is in the 7th percentile for safety, meaning 93% of counties are safer and 7% of counties are more dangerous."
3. Registered voters who haven’t proven citizenship increased by 32% since October 2023, with a total 26,426 voters not having proven citizenship currently per the Maricopa County Recorder's website. Voters who cannot prove citizenship are registered as "Federal Only" voters and given a ballot with only the Federal Offices on it such as President, US Senate and Congress. See: https://recorder.maricopa.gov/Elections/VoterRegistration/redirect_fed.aspx?view=congressional
4. While the tax rate decreased, the revenue collected increased by $71,000,000 since 2020. See the Maricopa County budget presentation: https://maricopa.hylandcloud.com/198AgendaOnline/Documents/ViewDocument/FY%202025%20ADOPTED%20BUDGET%20PRESENTATION%20-%20COUNTY.PDF.pdf?meetingId=4370&documentType=Agenda&itemId=244187&publishId=118995&isSection=false
5. In addition to spending millions of Federal dollars pushing Biden’s agenda, the 2024 Maricopa County Budget increased 56% in 5 years. Government spending is a major contributing factor causing massive inflation. See: https://breakingbattlegrounds.substack.com/p/is-your-city-50-better-now?r=3uqa9&triedRedirect=true See Maricopa County Budget Presentation: https://maricopa.hylandcloud.com/198AgendaOnline/Documents/ViewDocument/FY%202025%20ADOPTED%20BUDGET%20PRESENTATION%20-%20COUNTY.PDF.pdf?meetingId=4370&documentType=Agenda&itemId=244187&publishId=118995&isSection=false
6. The Recorder doesn’t oversee the counting of ballots, and there are no audits he conducts. Rather, the Recorder is responsible for early voting, voter registration, and signature verification. There are not statutorily mandated audits for these functions. See: https://azsos.gov/elections/about-elections/arizona-election-laws-publications
7. The current Recorder has taken the position to block transparency in a number of public record lawsuits. See: https://www.azfamily.com/2023/09/25/live-2nd-trial-day-kari-lake-lawsuit-against-maricopa-county/ Public Records reveal that the Maricopa County Recorder, at considerable expense to the taxpayer, has blocked key election incident information from being communicated to the public. His office has even ordered social media companies to censor posts. See the report at Merissa Hamilton.com
VOTER LIST CLEANUP OF FOREIGN NATIONALS In the United States, only US citizens are eligible to vote in Federal elections. However, there are voters who can't prove their citizenship who the Federal government still allows to register to vote as long as they attest they are citizens. These voters are called Federal-Only voters. This creates a big risk because any illegal voter could lie and still vote. In Maricopa County, there are now 26,553 voters who have not proven their citizenship: https://recorder.maricopa.gov/Elections/VoterRegistration/redirect_fed.aspx?view=congressional The county recorders could use a DHS database to validate whether these voters are citizens, but the current Arizona Secretary of State has not given them access to this database. The County Recorders could communicate directly with DHS to secure the necessary information to ensure that only US citizens are registered to vote. Through our attorney, America First Legal, Strong Communities Foundation and AZ Free Enterprise Club sent a letter to Maricopa County and the other 14 counties to ask them to confirm if they are utilizing the DHS database as the Federal Only voters have now surpassed 35k voters. You can read the letter that went to all of the counties here: https://media.aflegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/17140746/AFL-Letter-to-AZ-County-Recorders-re-1373-and-1644-2.pdf Make your voice heard by telling the Maricopa County Recorder that you want our voter rolls cleaned by doing the following: (1) Submit a request to DHS for citizenship confirmation of all federal-only voters registered in your county.