The issue stems back to early September, when Arizona election officials discovered approximately 98,000 registrants on the voter rolls who had not given the state documentary proof of citizenship.
Adrian Fontes failed to show that 'production of the records would violate rights of privacy or confidentiality or would be detrimental to the best interests of the state.'
'The best way forward is to provide transparency and ease the voters' concerns,' Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona Chair Merissa Hamilton told The Federalist.
GOP Chair Gina Swoboda claimed the 'public, impacted stakeholders, and the Arizona Supreme Court were misled as to the extent of the issue and its effect on Arizona’s voter registration records.'
On Friday, the Arizona Supreme Court authorized nearly 100,000 voters to vote “full-ballot” this November after election officials found a government-induced “error” put their registration statuses into question. “[W]e are unwilling on these facts to disenfranchise voters en masse from participating in state contests,” Chief Justice Ann Scott Timmer wrote. “Doing so is not authorized […]
In Arizona, voters need to provide documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in statewide elections. Those who do not provide proof are registered as “federal-only” voters, which allows them to cast a ballot only in federal elections. But the state says it discovered nearly 100,000 voters on the rolls who did not provide […]