The Citizens Clean Elections Commission in Arizona is a five-member nonpartisan group established by voters in 1998 to help ensure election integrity.
However, a grassroots national organization that has had members monitoring drop boxes following unfounded conspiracies of ballot harvesting is operating under a similar name: Clean Elections USA.
The Arizona commission met Thursday morning. Commissioner Amy Chan said she thinks the national group’s name is causing confusion.
"Frankly, when I saw it, our name, even though it was the Clean Elections USA group, I was confused," Chan said.
The commission’s attorney has issued a cease and desist order, demanding it stop using the Clean Elections name.
