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Arizona counties defy attorney general opinion on voters caught in proof-of-citizenship error
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Arizona Mirror
In Maricopa County, affected voters who don’t provide documentary proof of citizenship in time will be allowed to vote only in federal elections, according to public records obtained by Votebeat.
In other counties, affected voters will retain their full voting rightsThe state error, announced last summer, involved a problem with Arizona Motor Vehicle Division records and affected roughly 200,000 longtime residents statewide.
Mayes’ opinion specifically said that law applies only to new registrants.
Many of the affected voters have been voting for years or decades, it noted.
But after Mayes’ opinion came out, Pinal County reaffirmed its policy in a message on its website.
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