BREAKING: DOJ Refers Arizona Non-Citizen Voter Registration Allegations To FBI After Undercover Report Names Three Groups

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona has opened a case into allegations that three nonprofit organizations registered noncitizens to vote and referred the matter to the FBI, following the publication of an undercover report alleging improper voter registration practices by personnel associated with the same groups.

U.S. Attorney Timothy Courchaine announced the referral October 30, four days before the November 3 midterm election. His office identified Stand Indivisible Arizona, Worker Power, and When We Count in letters requesting registration reviews from Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap.

PHOENIX, Ariz. – Today, U.S. Attorney Timothy Courchaine announced that his office has opened a case into recent reporting about three non-profit organizations registering non-citizens to vote in Arizona. The United States Attorney’s Office has already referred the matter to the…

— US Attorney Arizona (@USAO_AZ) October 30, 2026

Courchaine sent both letters on October 26. They cited written and video reports but did not identify the reporting by outlet or title.

Days earlier, Muckraker had published an account of undercover encounters involving the three groups. Its journalists posed as noncitizens or a person on felony probation and asked canvassers about registering to vote.

Muckraker explicitly stated that its journalists stopped every exercise before any voter registration form was submitted.

BREAKING: Katie Hobbs-Aligned Canvassers Caught Willing to Allow Non-Citizens and a Felon to Vote

Muckraker went undercover in Arizona to investigate the groups working to re-elect Gov. Katie Hobbs @katiehobbs and other Democrats.

The full report is quote tweeted below.

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— Muckraker (@realmuckraker) October 22, 2026

“As we approach the 2026 midterm elections, the Department of Justice has become aware of three non-profit political organizations who may have registered ineligible voters in Arizona,” Courchaine wrote in his letter to Fontes.

He alleged that personnel acting on behalf of the organizations “either intentionally disregarded or were recklessly ignorant of Arizona’s law prohibiting the registration of non-citizens in elections.”

Both letters characterized the office’s initial examination as a “cursory review.”

“Based on a cursory review, it appears these organizations and their volunteers or employees may have violated A.R.S. § 16-182 by knowingly causing or procuring another person to be registered while knowing that person is not entitled to register to vote,” Courchaine wrote.

His letter to Heap requested a review of registrations submitted by the groups in Maricopa County “to ensure only United States Citizens were registered to vote.” The letter to Fontes requested a corresponding review at the state level.

Undercover Report Describes Registration Encounters

According to Muckraker’s account, a journalist posing as a Canadian citizen approached a Stand Indivisible Arizona canvasser and asked to register. The outlet alleged that the canvasser agreed to assist and, when asked about registering other Canadians, said, “Tell them to do it online.”

Muckraker described Stand Indivisible Arizona as having endorsed Gov. Katie Hobbs in its 2026 ballot guide and Worker Power as working to reelect her.

In the Worker Power encounter, Muckraker said its journalist disclosed that he was not a U.S. citizen. The outlet alleged that the canvasser subsequently marked “yes” on the registration form’s citizenship question at the journalist’s request.

An October 23 Arizona Insiders supplied additional context: the Worker Power canvasser initially told the journalist he could not register because he was not a citizen, then agreed to proceed after he asked whether he could still try. Arizona Insiders stated that it had not independently verified the video.

Muckraker’s allegation involving When We Count concerned a journalist posing as a person on felony probation. The outlet described When We Count as a Democratic National Committee registration program and alleged that canvassers encouraged him to register after reviewing eligibility rules. Its account quoted one as saying, “You should just do it.”

The report also described an encounter with an AFL-CIO phone-bank trainer. Muckraker alleged that the trainer responded, “We don’t care,” when asked whether callers should ask people about citizenship.

The AFL-CIO was not among the three organizations named in Courchaine’s letters. Neither the letters nor the release alleged that Hobbs directed or knew about the conduct described by Muckraker.

Worker Power’s Funding And Electoral Activities

Worker Power has a funding connection to Open Society Action Fund. A Candid-sourced grant table published by InfluenceWatch lists a $1.425 million grant in 2023 to CASE Action Fund to support its social welfare activities. Worker Power’s website confirms that the organization began as CASE Action Fund.

Worker Power describes itself as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization involved in voter outreach and electoral campaigns. Its website says its plans for January through October 2026 included collecting partisan voter registration applications and Active Early Voter List applications among young people and communities of color.

The DOJ materials do not connect the grant to the alleged registration violations or accuse the funder of wrongdoing.

Federal Office Warns Against Noncitizen Voting

In its announcement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office warned that lawful immigration status does not authorize a noncitizen to vote in the upcoming election.

“If you are a non-citizen, you may not vote in Tuesday’s election, even if you have legal authority to be in the country on a visa or as a legal permanent resident,” the office stated.

The release separately warned that knowingly causing an ineligible person to be registered would violate federal law. It did not identify a specific federal statute under investigation.

Courchaine’s letters requested registration reviews without directing officials to cancel particular registrations. The published materials provided no count of potentially ineligible registrations and did not establish that any noncitizen had cast a ballot.

No criminal charges have been announced as of publication. The DOJ materials did not include responses from the three organizations, Fontes, or Heap.