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The 2022 Arizona voter ID law was undoubtedly inspired by the unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud in the swing state made by former president Donald Trump and his allies after the 2020 ...
Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., 570 U.S. 1 (2013), is a 2012-term United States Supreme Court case revolving around Arizona's unique voter registration requirements, including the necessity of providing documentary proof of citizenship. In a 7–2 decision, the Supreme Court held that Arizona's registration requirements were ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday revived part of an Arizona voter law requiring documented proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, in response to a request from the ...
The decision means voters who attempt to register without proof of citizenship using Arizona's voter registration form will be rejected going forward, pending appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
Purcell v. Gonzalez (2006) was a case where the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a lower court's order that had blocked an Arizona voter ID law during the 2006 midterm election. Plaintiffs challenged Arizona's voting rules in federal court. Initially, the district court denied the plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction.
The case was remanded back to Judge Adelman of the federal Eastern District of Wisconsin for further proceedings. He gathered evidence as to the burden of the law. In July 2016 he issued an injunction against the voter ID law, "ruling citizens without an official ID may still cast ballots after signing an affidavit affirming their identity."
Arizona voters can check their registration status at any time via the state's election information portal, but that currently won't reflect whether a voter is impacted by this issue.
A flaw in the voter registration system showed nearly 100,000 people had provided proof of citizenship when they had not. A court now will decide if they can vote in state and local races, or only ...