A key election official in Arizona’s Maricopa County plans to ask the state’s highest court as early as Tuesday to prohibit nearly 100,000 longtime residents from voting in state and local races this fall after discovering the state has no record of asking them for documents proving their U.S. citizenship.
Like other states, Arizona requires voters to swear that they are citizens when they register to vote. But for 20 years, Arizona law has gone further and required residents to show birth certificates, naturalization papers or other documents proving citizenship to vote in state and local elections.
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In his lawsuit, Richer plans to ask that the voters in question receive ballots that contain only federal races, including for president. Fontes, the secretary of state, wants the court to allow voters to receive full ballots that include federal and state races — just as they always have.