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Arizona has 3.6 million registered voters, including 1.2 million Republicans, 1.1 million Democrats, and 1.2 million others — people who belong to minor parties or have no party affiliation.

The state shares a long border with Mexico, and the Pew Research Center estimates that there are more than 300,000 illegal immigrants living in the state.

Significant instances of voting by illegal immigrants have been found in much less vulnerable states.

Earlier this year, the Public Interest Legal Foundation identified 5,000 illegal immigrants on the rolls in Virginia, and found that one-third of them had voted at least once. In none of the cases identified was anyone reported to the police for voter fraud.

In Reagan’s letter, she says the voter data that is being requested would normally be given to a member of the public upon payment of a fee, but cites an exception to the state’s open-records law identified by the Arizona Supreme Court — “the best interests of the state” — that she says allows her to withhold the data, based on concerns about the privacy of the information.

But the information is information that Arizona routinely gives and sells to countless others.

Arizona and Alabama, says Churchwell, charge the most for their voter data.

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“Some states see their voter data as profit centers — Arizona and Alabama in particular,” he told LifeZette.

The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity is chaired by Vice President Mike Pence. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is the vice chair of the commission. His letter to all 50 states requested “publicly available voter roll data,” including, if publicly available: name, address, date of birth, political party, last four digits of the Social Security number, voter history 2006-present (whether a person voted in a given election), active/inactive status, and information on felony convictions, voter registration in another state, military status, and overseas status. The only category not typically made available in public records requests is Social Security number.

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The fourteen states that are refusing to share their voter rolls with the commission include California, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New York, and Virginia .

“If this goes to a court case, they’re going to lose so fast, they’re not even going to make it to the courthouse,” says Churchwell, saying case law makes it very clear that voter data is public information that cannot legally be withheld. [lz_pagination]