Scot Mussi is President of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club, had this exchange regarding Arizona elections with host Leyla Gulen on the Grand Canyon Times Podcast:
"Some reforms that probably people thought made sense to modernize, kind of the national process we use with voter registration, making sure there's more communication between the states related to, making sure can people can update and clean voter rolls. But as I mentioned before, in that law, it specifically omitted any requirement to prove U.S. citizenship. The issue this creates and the one that we've dealt with here in Arizona, is that when it comes to federal law and Congress setting the terms for elections for federal races, they have supremacy over the states, and the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on it.
So, Congress created this form, it doesn't require proof of citizenship, and the result is that states that rely on the federal registration form won't be able to check for proof of citizenship. It’s why here in Arizona, we've figured out a way to solve this issue and get around the impediments created by the National Voter Registration Act."
Mussi appeared on the Grand Canyon Times Podcast to discuss requirements for Arizona election officials to remove voter registration that do not have proof of U.S. citizenship, as well as other predictions regarding election security this fall.
The Arizona Free Enterprise Club is a non-profit advocacy organization founded in 2005 which focuses on “advancing a pro-growth, limited government agenda in Arizona.”
Scot Mussi was born and raised Arizona and graduated from Arizona State University in 2004. He lives in Gilbert with his wife and their three children.
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