Officials say an Arizona company believed to be headed by a Mesa deputy mayor is involved in fraudulent voter registration forms in Maricopa County and Pennsylvania.
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer said at a press conference Monday that there were multiple issues with voter registration forms. (Report: Washington resident says he received 16 ballots with different names)
Richer said 90,000 forms were submitted by Oct. 7, Maricopa County's voter registration deadline.
“There were people in the lobby with garbage bags filled with voter registration forms,” he said.
“I think about 40,000 of those voter registration forms, I would say, charitably, that they need attention,” Richer noted.
He said the batches contained damaged or ineligible documents.
“Voter registration forms that tried to register Mickey Mouse, Jerry Seinfeld, Donald Duck, etc.,” he added.
Richer said election officials are legally required to process voter registration forms even if they are damaged.
“This has long been a problem for county recorders across Arizona, but things have improved in recent years,” Richer said.
Richer said one of the groups involved in that series of votes was FieldCorps. of Arizona Corporation Commission It lists Mesa City Vice Mayor Francisco Heredia as a member and manager.
Richer said FieldCorps is an entity the county is “not completely satisfied with” and specifically related to “submitted voter registration forms.”
“They played a key role in the 90,000 documents submitted,” Richer said. It could not be confirmed how many of the 40,000 votes came from FieldCorps.
“And we advised them to submit better voter registration forms to increase quality control,” Richer said.
Officials say Arizona is not the only state affected by the organization. (Related: 'Invited fraud': Court ruling could cause a repeat of 2020 vote-counting chaos in key battleground states)
Mike Mancusco, District Attorney for Monroe County, Pennsylvania, posted on Facebook that the fraudulent documents were linked to a subsidiary of Field Corps.
“A company calling itself Field and Media Corp., a subsidiary of Field Corps, an Arizona-based organization operating in Lancaster County, was responsible for submitting the documents in question to county authorities.”
Mancusco said the Monroe County Board of Elections found about 30 irregular forms and at least one applicant died.
The “Field and Media Corps” website is appear Become operational.
News release from PR News Wire The company says it is a “leading political field management company” and that FieldCorps is now Field + Media Corps. The Daily Caller reached out to the company and the email addresses listed on Heredia, but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
The caller also contacted the Maricopa County Elections Office, the Arizona State Attorney's Office, the Monroe County Attorney's Office, and Heredia's communications director. As of this article's publication, callers have not received a response from any of the offices.
In 2023, the Arizona Attorney General's Office announced that 24 documents from FieldCorps in two counties were sent to the State Attorney General's Office for review, NBC 12 News reported. The case has been referred to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office and is still pending, the paper said.
The AG said the forms were rejected and those individuals were not registered voters. (Stream the Daily Caller documentary “Rigged” here)
A spokesperson for the AG's office told NBC 12 News that the agency has not received any formal complaints from FieldCorps or other groups regarding the 2024 voter registration form.
Hello, meet Francisco Heredia (@mesadistrict3) is a Democratic Mesa City Council member and CEO of Arizona-based Field+Media. The company is currently under investigation by four counties in Pennsylvania for suspected large-scale voter fraud.
Do you think he was running the same scam in Arizona?
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— Caroline Wren (@CarolineWren) November 1, 2024
States led by both Republicans and Democrats have highlighted voter fraud and ineligible voting as key issues.
In October, it was reported that the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) had removed more than 740,000 names from voter rolls in 20 months. Democratic Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek called for an audit in early October after hundreds of ineligible voters were registered. (Related: Republicans ask Supreme Court to block some provisional ballots from people with mailing errors in battleground states)
Several red states, including Texas and Alabama, removed thousands of noncitizens from their voter rolls in September.
