02/18/2026
👉 It’s being proposed under AZ Senate Bill 1570, under its amendment (replacing its original intent) to include federal agents at voting polling sites. This includes armed ICE agents in their official capacity to also stand at polling stations and oversee those entering and exiting as they participate in the voting process.
Voter fraud data has shown to have occurred between 0.0000031% and 0.0009% depending on the study. This could be between 0.03 - 9 cases per 1,000,000 according to the Heritage Foundation and Brookings Institute.
When convictions do occur, they often involve misunderstandings of eligibility rules (e.g., people with prior felonies who didn’t know their rights were restored) rather than intentional manipulation.
Out of the nearly 1,520,981,626 votes cast since 2000-2024, only around 3000 have been found fraudulent - which carries up to 5 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.
You are more likely to be struck by lightning in a given year than to cast a fraudulent vote — and you’re far more likely to encounter voter fraud allegations that turn out to be clerical errors (like a name mismatch in a database) than actual fraud.
Another way to think about it: you have better odds of being dealt a royal flush on your first hand of poker (about 1 in 650,000) than of randomly selecting a fraudulent ballot from a typical election.
🤔 So, is this bill necessary? Are armed agents standing at the doors of polling stations (which can intimidate voters) worth the odds of one committing voter fraud? And who does this bill serve when voter fraud is already illegal. Let us know. ✌️⭐️