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

[RandySF]

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/

[bahboo]

1. it's late so help me out here....

is this an attempt by the repubs to suppress votes? This and the Gallegos divorce thing, smack of something nefarious,,,,,

[AZJonnie]

2. It was such an attempt but AZ Supreme Court has already denied it, and it only ever applied to the non-Federal ballot

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/arizona-high-court-rules-nearly-98000-people-whose-citizenship-hadnt-been-confirmed-can-vote-the-full-ballot

Now it sounds like Adrian has to 'justify the decision' to not release the list of the people's names to somebody who sued over it. Knowing him, he'll have no problem doing so. The man is sharp as a tack. This excerpt has a right wing spin to it in my opinion. It talks like these 200K+ people ARE 'improperly registered to vote' when in fact almost certainly the vast, vast majority of them are rightly registered to vote in the sense that they are in fact citizens. They just never provided proof of citizenship because they were never asked in order to vote. This is a just another case brought by Trump people knowing they'd be shut down but they want something to whine and point fingers about as they claim the election was 'stolen', again. Honestly I hope the election doesn't come down to our state.

[bahboo]

3. ah...thx for the clarification.....