Republican legislators want Arizona's new voter proof-of-citizenship law to turn into a fight that could help overturn a 2013 Supreme Court ruling.
county recorders to reject applications that don't include "satisfactory evidence of citizenship" to register to vote in Arizona, they can't reject federal-only voters because of the 2013 court ruling.
After Trump lost in Arizona by 10,457 votes in 2020, Republicans are more eager than ever to see the new law roll back these features to those originally called for under Proposition 200.House bill to federally decriminalize the drug divides Arizona's Capitol Hill delegationFederal-only voters will be directly affected by HB 2492, barring a court stay, and will have to find a birth certificate or some other proof of citizenship if they want to vote for president or vote by mail.
The state Motor Vehicle Division only began checking that drivers were in the country legally starting in 1996. Proposition 200 grandfathered in those pre-1996 licenses, saying that anyone registered to vote when the act took effect in 2004 would not have to submit any more documentation and would be considered a valid voter.
HB 2492 challenges counties to dig into their voter rolls and locate voters with pre-1996 licenses who modified their registrations, Marson said.Something must be wrong, she pointed out, because Republicans are considering a"trailer bill" that would delay the law's effective date so that no one who votes in the Aug. 2 primary election would be stopped from voting or using mail ballots in the Nov. 8 general election.
Coconino County Recorder Patty Hansen, who opposed the bill, said she planned to meet with Coconino County Attorney Bill Ring to review its requirements. After signing it, Ducey told reporters that HB 2492 is a good law and he "doesn't think" the bill would"take legitimate voters off the rolls take citizens off the roads."
"For many voters who lack such documentation, the costs in time and effort to obtain it are substantial, and result in many voters simply giving up and being disenfranchised," it states. In addition, many permanent residents who obtained Arizona driver's licenses years ago would by now have become naturalized citizens. If those citizens registered to vote, counties might not know they were now eligible based on their previous designation as lawfully present noncitizens and cancel their registrations without notification, Lang said.
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