Judge: Fontes must defend decision not to release names of 220k improperly registered voters [View all]

A Maricopa County Superior Court Judge ruled Wednesday that Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes must defend his decision to withhold the names of 218,000 voters who have been improperly registered to vote because of a glitch in the state’s driver’s license database.

The conservative group that requested the names of the voters, run by one of former President Donald Trump’s top legal aides, filed the lawsuit earlier this month seeking the information.

The decades-long glitch, which was first discovered last month, meant that some Arizonans who received a driver’s license before 1996 were inaccurately labeled as having provided proof of citizenship, which is a requirement to register to vote in the Grand Canyon State.

The error in the database used by the state’s Motor Vehicles Division affects people with pre-1996 licenses who had received replacements. They had 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.



https://azmirror.com/2024/10/16/judge-fontes-must-defend-decision-not-to-release-names-of-220k-improperly-registered-voters/