BREAKING: Yuma County Sheriff's Office Investigating Cases of Voter Fraud in 2020 and 2022 Elections
https://www.yumacountysheriff.org/pr-2022/PR-2022-30-Yuma-County-Voting-Fraud.pdf
Contact: Tania Pavlak
Phone: (928) 783-4427
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 11, 2022 – 11:50 AM
Yuma County Voting Fraud
Location of Incident: Yuma County, AZ
The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office (YCSO) and the Yuma County Recorder’s Office (YCRO) are working
together to actively examine cases of voting fraud from the 2020 General Election and now a recent pattern of
fraudulent voter registration forms leading up to the 2022 Primary Election.
As of March 2022, YCSO has 16 voting/registration open cases. All relevant evidence is being formally
documented by the Yuma County Recorder’s Office and further investigated by the Yuma County Sheriff’s
Office.
Some examples of voter fraud Yuma County is currently seeing are the following:
• Impersonation fraud: Voting in the name of other legitimate voters and voters who have died or
moved away.
• False registrations: Falsifying voter registrations by either using a real or fake name, birth date, or
address. 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.
• Duplicate voting: Submitting multiple votes or registering in multiple locations and voting in the same
election in more than one jurisdiction or state.
• Fraudulent use of absentee ballots: Requesting absentee ballots and voting without the knowledge
of the actual voter; or obtaining the absentee ballot from a voter and either filling it in directly and
forging the voter’s signature or illegally telling the voter who to vote for.
If you suspect or witness individuals committing any of the mentioned voting frauds, share their
name or any other identifying information to law enforcement immediately.
The majority of voter fraud cases in Yuma County are related to duplicate voting (typically charged as
illegal voting and false voter registration). Under Arizona law, illegal voting is a class 5 or class 6 felony. A
person found guilty faces up to 2 or 2.5 years in prison, fines, restitution, loss of voting rights, and/or
probation.