AZ Court Asked To Rule On 100K Voter Registrations
The Washington Post reports:
A key election official in Arizona’s Maricopa County plans to ask the state’s highest court as early as Tuesday to prohibit nearly 100,000 longtime residents from voting in state and local races this fall after discovering the state has no record of asking them for documents proving their citizenship.
Like other states, Arizona requires voters to swear that they are citizens when they register to vote. But for 20 years, Arizona law has gone further and required residents to show birth certificates, naturalization papers or other documents proving citizenship to vote in state and local elections.
At issue is a pool of voters who county and state officials have no record of submitting those documents. Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) said the vast majority are
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