Rogers Asks Trump for Investigation of AZ Election Irregularities

Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers (R-7) has formally called on President Donald Trump to initiate a federal compliance review of Arizona’s election systems, citing what she claims are systemic violations of a recent Executive Order aimed at preserving election integrity.

In a letter dated July 14, 2025, and written on official Arizona State Senate letterhead, Rogers asked Trump and his administration to investigate whether Arizona’s elections comply with Executive Order 14248, which was issued on March 25, 2025, to “preserve and protect the integrity of American elections.”

“As Chair of the Arizona Senate Elections Committee and a retired Lt. Colonel in the United States Air Force, I write to respectfully request a formal federal compliance review of Arizona’s election systems and practices under the authority of Executive Order 14248,” Rogers began. “After working closely with Colonel Conrad Reynolds and Will Huff, I have learned that the Executive Order clearly outlines the necessary steps for ensuring free, fair, and secure elections across the country.”

She listed a series of alleged violations taking place in Arizona, starting with encoded vote tabulation. “Voting machines currently use ballot scanned images, digital markings and other encoded vote data to tabulate votes rather than counting the voter-verifiable, human-readable text,” Rogers wrote. “This violates the intent of your order, which calls for the tabulation of votes based on what the voter can see—not what a machine interprets.”

Rogers also criticized the terminology used by Arizona officials to describe ballots: “Arizona officials continue to claim compliance by using ADA touchscreen-printed machine ballots as ‘paper ballots,’ despite the fact they are not hand-marked and are encoded with digital vote instructions not visible to the voter.”

Further, she raised alarm over election equipment, noting that “vendors operating in Arizona have acknowledged the use of Chinese-manufactured hardware in voting systems and support devices, raising serious concerns under EO 13873 and Section 6 of EO 14248 related to election infrastructure security.”

The letter cited additional concerns, including the counting of ballots received after Election Day, which she argued violates federal law: “Arizona accepts and counts ballots received after Election Day, in contradiction to 2 U.S.C. § 7 and 3 U.S.C. § 1, and to your policy requiring uniform enforcement of federal law establishing Election Day deadlines.”

Rogers claimed that voter roll maintenance and citizenship verification remain insufficient. “Arizona still relies on self-attestation without consistently requiring documentary proof of citizenship for Federal elections,” she wrote. “There is insufficient enforcement of proof-of-citizenship requirements and a lack of coordinated list maintenance, contrary to the mandates in Sections 2 and 3 of EO 14248.”

She also warned about vulnerabilities in the interface between the state’s voter registration system and the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division database. “There is sufficient evidence that the current voter registration database and poll books system utilize an interface with a flawed Arizona Motor Vehicle system, resulting in voter registrations being canceled or altered without knowledge or consent, in violation of 52 U.S. Code § 20507,” Rogers wrote.

Rogers asked that the Trump administration investigate the following:

• Whether Arizona’s voting equipment and vote tabulation systems comply with EO 14248, particularly regarding encoded vote counting.
• Whether proof-of-citizenship requirements are being enforced and monitored.
• Whether ballots received after Election Day are being accepted and counted in federal elections.
• Whether Arizona’s motor vehicle and poll book systems are contributing to illegal registrations or disenfranchisement.
• Whether foreign software or hardware remains embedded in any part of the election process.
• Whether Arizona’s election practices meet federal funding eligibility standards under the Help America Vote Act.

Quoting Executive Order 14248, Rogers concluded: “Your Executive Order rightly declares that ‘elections must be honest and worthy of the public trust.’ I fully support your directive and believe that states like Arizona must be held accountable to it.”

Rogers pledged her full cooperation with any federal evaluation, noting her readiness to work with the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and the Election Assistance Commission.

The Senator discussed the contents of her letter in detail on the We the People AZ Alliance podcast. You can listen to the full episode here.