Arizona admits that nearly 100,000 non-citizen ‘voters’ wrongly listed on voter rolls amid lawsuit
Non-citizens lawfully residing in Arizona “shouldn’t be registered to vote” since they are labeled as non-citizens on their driver’s licenses, Former Arizona Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright said.
Arizona officials admitted to finding nearly 100,000 voters who had not provided proof of U.S. citizenship but still had full voting privileges as the state is facing a lawsuit for not removing non-citizens from its voter rolls.
Close to 100,000 voters are incorrectly registered in Arizona as proving their U.S. citizenship, with one green card holder found registered with full voting privileges. The 20-year-old error that caused this was discovered as the state is being sued for not searching for and removing non-citizens from its voter registration lists.
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) explained Tuesday that there was an error in state systems that labeled the roughly 97,000 voters as providing documented proof of U.S. citizenship, Votebeat reported.
“Motor Voter” crashes
The Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) provides the state’s voter registration system with driver’s license information, and the error occurred in that process. Affected voters had first obtained Arizona driver’s licenses before October 1996 and were issued duplicate replacements before registering to vote after 2004, Fontes said.
The error was discovered by a Maricopa County worker who found a registered voter who hadn’t provided proof of U.S. citizenship but was listed as a voter who could cast ballots in both federal and state elections. The voter had a green card but never cast a ballot, Fontes said.
The error has occurred for about 20 years and over four administrations, he noted.
Counties are scheduled to send out military and overseas voter ballots on Thursday.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs’ (D) office explained Tuesday that the state’s Access Voter Information Database (AVID) “was programmed to query the duplicate issuance date” of driver’s licenses “and would not alert the county that the license was originally issued before 10/1/1996.”
Driver’s licenses “issued after October 1, 1996 can be valid [documentary proof of citizenship],” the governor’s office noted.
“My office discovered this issue last week, and we have been working with the Governor’s Office, the Secretary’s Office, the MVD, and the Attorney General to fix this moving forward,” Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer posted on his X account Tuesday…..
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