Third-Party NGO Voter Registration Operations Connected to National Private Funding Networks (AZ)

The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office and Yuma County Recorder’s Office jointly confirmed sixteen open criminal investigations as of March 2022 into a pattern of election-related fraud spanning the 2020 General Election and continuing into the 2022 primary cycle. Categories of fraud documented in the Sheriff’s Office press release included impersonation fraud, false voter registrations, duplicate voting, and fraudulent use of absentee ballots. For the false-registration category, the Sheriff’s Office specifically noted: “This is being done by outreach groups who are paid for each registration form they submit, therefore, are out soliciting voters into unnecessarily re-registering or falsifying forms with Yuma County resident’s identities.” In a June 7, 2022 interview with The Epoch Times, Yuma County Recorder Robyn Stallworth Pouquette stated: “We have received registration forms that are fraudulently completed. It’s been a prevalent problem in Yuma County, and it’s very unfortunate.” The Epoch Times reported that the investigation was targeting U.S. nonprofits believed to be political advocacy groups operating on a national scale, though this characterization appeared in the article’s subheadline rather than as a direct Pouquette quote.