Video of alleged volunteers for Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs needs context: It shows no noncitizens registered to vote
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Needs context a video published on October 22, 2026, by Muckraker, a hidden-camera video site that has collaborated with the Oversight Project, an investigative group created by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation. In the accompanying text, Muckraker claims that volunteers “aligned” with Katie Hobbs, governor of Arizona and Democratic candidate for reelection in the November 3, 2026 midterms, were “caught willing to allow noncitizens and a felon to vote.”
In the recordings, Anthony Rubin, founder of Muckraker, and other site journalists pose as individuals who do not meet the requirements to register as voters: a Canadian with a student visa, a noncitizen legal resident, and a convicted felon who is on probation.
Muckraker links the volunteers to 4 organizations: Stand Indivisible Arizona; Worker Power; When We Count, the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) voter registration program; and an AFL-CIO union phone bank.
However, the video does not show any ineligible person being registered to vote.
Muckraker itself acknowledges that it stopped each encounter before submitting any registration forms. Rubin also confirmed to public radio KJZZ that he found no evidence that these organizations registered noncitizens. According to KJZZ, at various points in the recordings, volunteers tell him that he cannot register, or that they are unsure and that the decision is up to election officials. In the case of When We Count, volunteers checked the law and verified that the person was ineligible, although, according to Muckraker, they still encouraged him to register.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona opened an investigation on October 30, 2026, based on the video regarding three of the groups (Stand Indivisible Arizona, Worker Power, and When We Count) and referred the case to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Worker Power and the DNC deny the allegations; Worker Power maintains that the video was deceptively edited. Stand Indivisible Arizona declined to comment to KJZZ. To date, the investigation has not released any findings.
Additionally, organizations of this type have no power to enroll anyone on the official voter rolls.
As explained in the 2025 Election Procedures Manual, published by the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office—which oversees the midterms—on page 1, the county recorder must make voter registration forms available to “all federal, state, county, local, and tribal governmental agencies, political parties, and private organizations” conducting such activities.
On page 3, it states that in order to register to vote, it is essential to be a U.S. citizen at least 18 years of age by the time of the election, and not have been “convicted of treason or a felony, unless civil rights have been restored,” among other requirements.
If the registration applicant submits valid documentary proof of citizenship (DPOC), “or if the county recorder obtains it from official records,” that person will be registered to vote, provided they meet all the aforementioned requirements.
If a review of official records from the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division (AZMVD) or the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program “unambiguously indicates that an individual is not a United States citizen, the county recorder shall notify the individual that they will not be registered until valid DPOC is provided.”
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