{"id":72980,"date":"2026-05-03T06:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/apartheid-in-the-us-arizonas-secretary-of-state-fights-trumps-plot-to-amass-a-master-list-of-voters\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:03:30","slug":"apartheid-in-the-us-arizonas-secretary-of-state-fights-trumps-plot-to-amass-a-master-list-of-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/apartheid-in-the-us-arizonas-secretary-of-state-fights-trumps-plot-to-amass-a-master-list-of-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Apartheid in the US\u2019: Arizona\u2019s secretary of state fights Trump\u2019s plot to amass a \u2018master list\u2019 of voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Database could be used to regulate opponents, from \u2018shutting off bank accounts\u2019 to healthcare, official warns<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> is attempting to select his own citizenry and control who can vote by gathering the personal details of all Americans, Arizona\u2019s top election official has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Fontes, Arizona\u2019s Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/azsos.gov\/adrian-fontes\">secretary of state<\/a>, fears that the Trump administration\u2019s active efforts to forcibly extract voter files from 30 states including Fontes\u2019s own are part of a bigger plan to gather vital information on all US citizens into a centralised database. \u201cTrump is trying to amass a master list that will allow him to declare someone an enemy of the state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/03\/arizona-state-secretary-trump-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Database could be used to regulate opponents, from \u2018shutting off bank accounts\u2019 to healthcare, official warns Donald Trump is attempting to select his own citizenry and control who can vote by gathering the personal details of all Americans, Arizona\u2019s top election official has warned. Adrian Fontes, Arizona\u2019s Democratic secretary of state, fears that the Trump &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Apartheid in the US\u2019: Arizona\u2019s secretary of state fights Trump\u2019s plot to amass a \u2018master list\u2019 of voters\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/apartheid-in-the-us-arizonas-secretary-of-state-fights-trumps-plot-to-amass-a-master-list-of-voters\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Apartheid in the US\u2019: Arizona\u2019s secretary of state fights Trump\u2019s plot to amass a \u2018master list\u2019 of voters\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}