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

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Sun 3 May 2026 06.00 EDT
Last modified on Sun 3 May 2026 06.32 EDT


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.

In his 19th-floor office in Phoenix, Fontes said that in his view Trump wants to create the equivalent of “apartheid in the United States” and likened his actions to those of his counterpart in North Korea. With personal information on all Americans at his disposal, the president could regulate key aspects of the lives of his opponents, including “shutting off their bank accounts, or keeping them from getting healthcare”.

“This is Donald Trump trying to pick his own voters,” he said.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/03/arizona-state-secretary-trump-elections

[AZJonnie]

1. It might sound a little paranoid, but Fontes is a smart dude, not some crackpot

We'd be wise to listen to what he has to say. There's an litany of reasons to believe that's exactly what the regime are trying to do, the gathering of all the state's voter lists is only one of them, albeit a particularly important one.

[not fooled]

2. US sleepwalking into this

It's obvious what they intend to do but the corporate media and almost all of my fellow 'Muricans act as though it's not happening.