A new film by Public Interest Legal Foundation is bringing attention to the illegal listing of hundreds of commercial addresses as voters’ residences on Arizona’s voter roll ahead of the November 5 general election. According to state law, these addresses are not considered residences.
Under the Arizona Revised Statutes 16-152, the voter registration should include the “complete address of the registrant’s actual place of residence, including street name and number, apartment or space number, city or town and zip code, or such description of the location of the residence that it can be readily ascertained or identified.”
🚨🚨Election Integrity Alert 🚨🚨@AZSecretary @Adrian_Fontes is failing to investigate commercial addresses on the voter roll. So we went to Arizona and investigated ourselves.@ElectionLawCtr @kenblackwell @KariLake @KamalaHarris @JesseBWatters @SebGorka @charliekirk11 pic.twitter.com/8GI7Or6GcP
— PublicInterestLegal (@PILFoundation) October 16, 2024
In the 7-minute film to highlight the issue, Lauren Bowman Bis, director of Communications and Engagement at Public Interest Legal Foundation, visited the addresses listed on the voter roll of various individuals.
The addresses Bis investigated led her to an abortion clinic, gas stations, liquor stores, vacant lots, schools, a smoke shop, a bank, fast-food chains, a strip club, golf courses, roller rinks, and bars.
Once Bis arrived at the addresses, she would ask the employees if the individual listed on the voter roll “lived” there, which was often met with confusion.
J. Christian Adams, president of Public Interest Legal Foundation, said the film featuring the investigation into the commercial addresses listed on Arizona’s voter roll comes after the organization has been “warning Arizona election officials about people registered to vote from commercial addresses since before the 2020 election.”
“I hope this film will embarrass election officials into investigating the hundreds of commercial addresses on the voter roll. Arizona always comes down to a handful of votes which is why it’s so important this problem is fixed and why Arizonians need to go out and vote early this year,” Adams added.
Watch Public Interest Legal Foundation’s new film in full:
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Arizona Sun Times and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Photo “PILF in Arizona” by PILF.
