Arizona voting issues: Arizona Voter Data Coding Oversight Updated

[riclag]

Election  day  close to 1 month.

 

“Today, the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office released additional information about a new set of approximately 120,000 Arizonans who may be affected by a data coding oversight within ADOT’s Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) and Arizona voter registration databases—individuals who have lived in the state for decades and have attested under penalty of perjury that they are U.S. citizens. This data set includes approximately 79,000 Republicans, 61,000 Democrats, and 76,000 Other Party (OTH), bringing the total of impacted individuals to approximately 218,000”.

 

Staff and experts from the Secretary of State’s Office are continuing to work with MVD to investigate if additional voters are impacted, or if other similar errors stemming from improperly coded Proposition 200 rules exist.

https://azsos.gov/news/849

 

News coverage :

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-voter-registration-system-error-impacts-additional-120000-people-secretary-state

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

From what I'm reading below, the issue with these voters in Arizona has nothing to do with whether they could or should be able to vote in the upcoming federal presidential election -- but only about whether they were entitled to vote in state and local contests:

 

AZ Supreme Court won’t limit 97,000 improperly registered voters

 

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled that roughly 97,000 voters who are improperly registered to vote because of a glitch in the state’s driver’s license database won’t be limited on who they can vote for in November because no law authorizes county recorders to change their registration status.

 

The voters are erroneously registered to vote because of the way the Motor Vehicle Division provides driver’s license information to the state’s voter registration system. The voters affected by this particular coding error are people who first obtained their Arizona driver’s license before October 1996 and then were issued a duplicate replacement before registering to vote sometime after 2004. [emphasis added]

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Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer flagged the problem with the driver’s license database earlier this week, then asked the Arizona Supreme Court to limit those voters — who have been casting ballots for decades and aren’t suspected of being noncitizens — to voting only in federal contests unless they provide proof of citizenship in the coming weeks.

 

https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2024/09/20/az-supreme-court-wont-limit-97000-improperly-registered-voters/

 

 

Arizona Supreme Court decides nearly 100,000 voters will get full ballot access after clerical error

The clerical error might have seen the roughly 98,000 Arizonans unable to participate in state legislature, county, school board, and city elections, including ballot measures.

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With just a few weeks before early voting kicks off in Arizona, Fontes’ office argued the 98,000 voters should be able to vote on the full ballots, casting their votes at both the federal and local levels. Richer’s office argued these voters could only participate at the federal level.

 

Arizona GOP Chair Gina Swoboda joined them in applauding the court’s decision. In an interview with NBC News on Friday night, Swoboda said, “I could not be happier with this result."

 

"We’re very grateful to the state Supreme Court for protecting the voices of almost 98,000 voters who were in danger of being disenfranchised in this election,” she added. 

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/arizona-supreme-court-decides-nearly-100000-voters-will-get-full-ballo-rcna172081

 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by TallGuyJohninBKK