Arizona Supreme Court rules 98K voters impacted by MVD error can vote full ballot
PHOENIX (AZFamily/AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the nearly 98,000 voters whose citizenship documents hadn’t been confirmed can cast their full ballots in state and local races in the upcoming November election.
The ruling contended that Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and other county recorders do not have the authority to change voter registration statuses to federal-only ballots because those voters registered long ago.
“We are unwilling on these facts to disenfranchise voters en masse from participating in state contests,” Chief Justice Ann Scott Timmer stated in the ruling. “Doing so is not authorized by state law and would violate principles of due process.”
The high court acknowledged that while county recorders are required to verify proof of citizenship, in this case, there is no evidence to suggest the impacted voters are not U.S. citizens.
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