The vast majority of voter fraud claims in Arizona were dismissed with no criminal charges brought, officials announced Friday, a day before former President Donald Trump arrived for a rally in the state.
The Pima County Attorney Office said in a statement that there were no cases of criminal prosecutions for residents who cast more than one ballot.
More than two-thirds of the incidents reviewed by Arizona officials were the cases.
There is little to no evidence that voters knowingly submitted more than one ballot in order to have multiple votes counted, according to the Pima County Attorney. The investigation revealed that there was a lot of confusion about the electoral process, particularly relating to mail-in and provisional ballots, and the fear that their initial vote would not count.
One example was a person who asked for a replacement ballot after she thought her first ballot had been stolen. A person said he lost his first ballot and requested a second, and that someone else may have found his first ballot and sent it in.
The additional ballots cast in the incidents were not counted in the final tally of votes and did not affect the election results for any candidate or ballot measure, according to the statement.
The statement said that one-third of the 151 were given a more intensive review, and that there were 23 registered Republicans, 15 registered Democrats, and 13 registered as independent.
One day before Trump's rally in Florence, Arizona, Pima County announced that it was going to do so. Multiple audits have confirmed that Trump lost Arizona to President Joe Biden.
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