I tried to stop this, he told reporters in a news conference in Phoenix. I have fought as hard as I could to keep your names and your personal identifying information away from the folks who I don't trust and I have good reason not to trust them with that specific information.
But last month lawyers for America First Legal, an organization founded by the former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, sued for the release of the names of the affected voters on behalf of a right-wing group in Phoenix, the Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona.
I don't want blood on my hands, Mr. Fontes said in a court hearing last month. The court order imposes strict conditions on the release of the voter list, which will be made available only to certain county election officials and a handful of state legislators.
Adrian Fontes, Arizona's secretary of state, said Monday that his office had handed over the names of hundreds of thousands of voters to lawyers for a right-wing activist group as ordered by a court, adding that he regretted having to do so.
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