The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday that nearly 98,000 people whose citizenship documents hadn’t been confirmed can vote in state and local races.
Nearly 98,000 people whose U.S. citizenship has not been confirmed will be allowed to vote in the upcoming state and local elections, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday. The ruling came after a 'coding oversight' in state software prompted the swing state's Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to insist that he would send out ballots to those affected anyway.
''This was discovered not because somebody was voting illegally and not because somebody was attempting to vote illegally, as far as we can tell,' Fontes said at a Tuesday afternoon news conference. 'And this was basic voter roll maintenance, and it showed us that there is this issue.' Richer filed a special action Tuesday asking the state Supreme Court to settle the question.
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