Newsweek, April 2025
Counties in Arizona, a state that flipped to President Donald Trump in last year’s election after narrowly supporting former President Joe Biden in 2020, have agreed to work with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to review their voter rolls and verify the citizenship status of voters, according to court documents reviewed by Newsweek.
Newsweek has reached out to a legal representative for the plaintiff and defendant as well as the DHS press team for comment via email on Sunday. Republicans have long sought stricter voter registration guidelines, saying that it would prevent voter fraud. The Republican-led House on Friday passed the SAVE Act, which stands for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, and, if it becomes law, would impose new federal requirements for proving citizenship when registering to vote.
