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cbabe

(4,236 posts)
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 10:58 AM Oct 2

How Arizona Republicans' voter purge scheme blew up in their faces

https://www.rawstory.com/arizona-republican-voting-laws/

How Arizona Republicans' voter purge scheme blew up in their faces

Brad Reed
October 2, 2024 11:41AM ET

Republicans in Arizona over the past several years have enacted proof-of-citizenship requirements for registered voters with the purported goal of eliminating the threat of undocumented immigrants from voting.

However, Just Security reports that many of these same Republicans have been changing their tune recently after they discovered that the law would purge a large number of registered Republicans.

As Just Security writes, the trouble started last month when Maricopa County recorder Stephen Richer "discovered that a glitch in Arizona’s driver’s license database caused nearly 100,000 registered voters not to meet the proof of citizenship requirements under the state’s recently revised election laws."



Overall, registered Republicans represented 37 percent of the voters affected by the glitch, while registered Democrats made up 27 percent and unaffiliated voters represented 29 percent.

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How Arizona Republicans' voter purge scheme blew up in their faces (Original Post) cbabe Oct 2 OP
I thought the AZ Supreme Court ruled that these voters could still vote after all. And the presidential 50 Shades Of Blue Oct 2 #1
Apparently they don't think things through so well C_U_L8R Oct 2 #2

50 Shades Of Blue

(10,897 posts)
1. I thought the AZ Supreme Court ruled that these voters could still vote after all. And the presidential
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 11:07 AM
Oct 2

Race wasn't affected anyway, just state and local races.

C_U_L8R

(45,729 posts)
2. Apparently they don't think things through so well
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 11:10 AM
Oct 2

Maybe they should take a deep breath next time they have a racist thought... and hold it.

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