Suspended voter registrations in Arizona's Pinal County top 1,100 after state error
Thousands of voters in Maricopa County caught up in a state record-keeping error won’t yet lose their voting rights for not providing proof of citizenship, county officials now say. But Pinal County has suspended more than a thousand voters affected by the error who have tried to update their registration without providing the proof.
How Maricopa and Pinal handle these affected voters will determine whether they can cast ballots in jurisdictional elections scheduled for Nov. 4. Arizona counties began sending ballots to voters on Oct. 8, and Maricopa and Pinal counties are running their elections entirely by mail.
The suspended Pinal County voters will not receive ballots in the mail. They can cast a provisional ballot, but would have to request it in person.
The state announced the error in September 2024, and since then, election officials have been wrestling with how best to handle it. The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office told 83,000 voters in June that they had 90 days to respond with a birth certificate, passport, or other document, or it would classify them federal-only voters who could vote only in presidential and congressional races.
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