A federal judge on Friday rejected a right-wing request to order the removal of 1.2 million allegedly ineligible voters from Arizona's voter rolls just four days before the election.

Judge Steven P. Logan found that the right-wing group had no standing to bring forward its claim to purge more than a million voters on the eve of an election. Logan, an Obama appointee, said the claim that there are over a million ineligible voters is “completely speculative.”

However, he allowed the group to obtain the records relating to the maintenance of the state's voter rolls and ordered the state to provide those documents by December 2.

On October 30, the 1789 Foundation, also known as Citizen_AG, and a voter filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D), alleging that Fontes failed to maintain voter rolls in accordance with the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).

The NVRA requires states to place voters who may no longer reside in the state on the inactive voter list if they do not respond to a notice asking them to confirm their residency. If that person fails to vote in two consecutive federal election cycles, he or she will be removed from the state's voter rolls.

According to the plaintiffs, there are more than 1.2 million voters who may no longer be eligible to vote after failing to respond to 2020 notices asking them to confirm their change of residence. Citizen_AG asked Fontes for records of whether these people voted in the 2020 or 2022 elections and learned those records did not exist.

The plaintiffs asked the court to order Fontes to produce the records and order county election officials to remove ineligible voters from the voter rolls before the Nov. 5 election.

A similar lawsuit was also filed this week in Pennsylvania, where Citizen_AG is seeking to remove over 277,000 voters from office.

Read the order here.

Find out more about the case here.