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Arizona enacted a law in 2005 requiring new voters to provide proof of citizenship, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that the state could not impose that requirement on those who used a ...
Under Arizona law, residents who fail to submit documentary proof of citizenship — or “whose U.S. citizenship cannot be verified” via their driver's license registration records “or other ...
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 ...
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 ...
The federal form requires people to swear they are U.S. citizens, but there is no proof requirement. Federal-only voters have been a subject of political wrangling since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that Arizona cannot require documentary proof of citizenship for people to vote in national elections.
Arizona may — and does already — require voters to document their citizenship to vote in state and local elections. Also at issue in the case was a 2018 consent decree arising from a separate ...
Citing a 2013 precedent, the government said, “A State violates the Act by rejecting a federal form on the ground that the voter failed to submit documentary proof of citizenship along with it.
Proposition 200, the "Arizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act", was an Arizona state initiative passed in 2004 that basically requires: (a) persons to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote; (b) voters to present a photo identification before receiving a ballot at the polling place; and (c) state and local agencies to verify the identity and eligibility, based on immigration ...