Justin Heap refers alleged noncitizen voters to AG's office after strongly worded letters
After weeks of sparring with state prosecutors, Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap referred potential noncitizens that he claims to have found on the county’s voter roll to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office on Friday.
His referral comes after the attorney general’s office suggested it could take legal action against Heap unless he handed over information about the voters, according to public records obtained by Votebeat.
Nicholas Klingerman, the chief counsel of the office’s criminal division, wrote in an April 2 letter to Heap that he was violating state law by failing to refer the alleged noncitizen voters for further investigation. On May 20, he sent another letter stressing those concerns and adding that Heap’s “current handling” of the voters’ registration status didn’t comply with state election law.
“At this point, your insistence that you are following the law is wrong at best and purposefully misleading at worst,” Klingerman wrote in his letter, adding that Heap must refer the voters to state prosecutors by the end of the week.
https://www.votebeat.org/arizona/2026/05/22/attorney-general-maricopa-county-justin-heap-noncitizen-voters-investigation-save/