re: AZ Legal WIN: SoS Must Produce List of 218k Voters Who Didn't Produce Proof of Citizenship

Why does the headline say 218K while the document says 98K?

As others have said - if they voted, what can anyone do, other than throw out the entire election and start over again.

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As others have said - if they voted, what can anyone do, other than throw out the entire election and start over again.

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Because despite what vague and misleading tweets say, this isn't a case of a bunch of illegals jumping the border and voting. It's a ton of long time AZ residents who have old DL that have been replaced

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Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona, a nonprofit led by conservative activist Merissa Hamilton, filed the public records lawsuit after Fontes initially refused to turn over the list of voter names until after the Nov. 5 election

According to the lawsuit, after learning about a glitch in the state’s driver’s license database that resulted in improper voter registration for more than 200,000 Arizonans — all of whom had been residents of the state for decades, and many registered for just as long — Hamilton’s group filed a public records request seeking “a subset of the Statewide Voter Registration Database that contains only those registered (active and inactive) voters that” were part of the data glitch.

The glitch, which was first discovered late September, meant that some Arizonans who received a driver’s license prior to 1996 were inaccurately labeled as having provided proof of citizenship, a requirement to register to vote in the Grand Canyon State beginning in 2005.

The error in the database used by the state’s Motor Vehicles Division affects people with pre-1996 licenses who have since received replacements. The voters affected have been registered to vote for decades, but were never required to prove their citizenship because of the “data coding oversight” in the system, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.

The office has said the affected voters include 79,000 Republicans, 61,000 Democrats and 76,000 who aren’t a member of either party.

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And Hamilton told Capitol Media Services this has never been about trying to block the 98,000 – or however many end up on the final list – from casting ballots this year.

“The super majority of the list are probably citizens,'' she said. "But those that aren't – if that exists in this situation – now have fair warning they will get caught if they try to break our laws.”

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Thanks. Still messed up that this happens this close to the election.