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About 6000 Arizona voters have been significantly affected by errors resulting from voter registration. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said Tuesday that the affected voters got a mail ballot with only federal races.
The
Democratic nominee for governor in the state said the affected voters will
receive the correct ballot shortly, The Associated Press reported.
People who
register in Arizona to vote or update their registration are subject to
driver’s license checks to verify their citizenship so that those without
citizenship documentation on file are not eligible to vote in state elections.
They are registered as “federal only” voters, according to The Associated
Press.
In this
case, the driver’s license query failed to correctly verify the citizenship for
up to 6000 people and hence making them to be improperly registered as federal
only voters, said Sophia Solis, spokeswoman for Hobbs.
In 2013 the
U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Arizona cannot require documentary proof of
citizenship for people to vote in national elections which prompted the state
to create two classes of voters which included those who could vote in all
races and those who can vote only in federal elections.
Hobbs noted that the database error has been rectified.