The Arizona Supreme Court recently made a significant ruling allowing nearly 98,000 individuals, whose U.S. citizenship status had not been confirmed, to vote in the upcoming state and local elections. This decision stemmed from a coding oversight in the state software, which led to a discrepancy in the citizenship status of around 100,000 registered Arizona voters.
The issue primarily affected individuals who had obtained their driver's licenses before October 1996 and later received duplicates before registering to vote after 2004. The state's Democratic Secretary of State, Adrian Fontes, announced that ballots would be sent out to those impacted by the oversight, despite the uncertainty surrounding their citizenship status.
