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Ed Pilkington in Phoenix, Arizona

‘Apartheid in the US’: Arizona’s secretary of state fights Trump’s plot to amass a ‘master list’ of voters

A man in a suit jacket and no tie sits at a wooden conference table in front of the US flag and the Arizona state flag, gesturing on the table as he speaks.
Adrian Fontes in Phoenix, Arizona, on 4 June 2024. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Donald Trump is attempting to select his own citizenry and control who can vote by gathering the personal details of all Americans, Arizona’s top election official has warned.

Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state, fears that the Trump administration’s active efforts to forcibly extract voter files from 30 states including Fontes’s own are part of a bigger plan to gather vital information on all US citizens into a centralised database. “Trump is trying to amass a master list that will allow him to declare someone an enemy of the state,” he said.

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