State officials said that there was an error in their database used to keep track of citizenship eligibility.
Arizona’s highest court has ruled that nearly 100,000 residents who have unconfirmed citizenship status are allowed to vote in state and local elections.
The ruling on Friday was issued a few days after state officials announced that they had discovered an error in their databases that keeps track of voters‘ citizenship status. Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, said on Tuesday that the error was resolved but that 98,000 voters impacted by the error were still in limbo.
