Judge Orders Arizona to Release List of Registered Voters With Unverified Citizenship

Arizona’s secretary of state must disclose a list of as many as 218,000 voters affected by a glitch at the Motor Vehicles Division.

A judge has ordered Arizona to release a list of registered voters whose citizenship status was not verified due to a coding glitch in the state’s record-keeping system.

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has resisted disclosing the list, citing concerns that the individuals on it could face harassment.

In an Oct. 31 ruling, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Scott A. Blaney instructed Fontes to provide the list to Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona, also known as EZAZ.org, a conservative watchdog group that filed a public records lawsuit to access the data.

James Rogers, senior counsel for America First Legal (AFL), which filed the lawsuit on behalf of EZAZ.org, said that the lawsuit was about restoring transparency and making sure county recorders can verify the citizenship status of voters.

“A majority of Arizonans no longer trust the election system of our state. One of the reasons is the lack of transparency from our state’s elected officials,” Rogers said in an Oct. 31 statement. “It is unfortunate that Secretary Fontes so aggressively opposed our common-sense efforts to help restore trust in our state’s election system. This was a case we never should have needed to file.”

The list, which contains as many as 218,000 voters, includes individuals who did not provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering. The affected voters were mistakenly marked as having provided the documentation due to a flaw in the data systems managed by Arizona’s Motor Vehicles Division (MVD) and the secretary of state’s office.

Anonymous
November 4, 2024 at 11:04 am

A “coding glitch”? These demon-crats will go to any lengths to enthrone their god satan (no auto-correct, I will never capitalize satan!).

Judge Orders Arizona to Release List of Registered Voters With Unverified Citizenship

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