This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.
After lawsuit, Maricopa County reinstates 25 voters mistakenly flagged in citizenship check The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office has agreed to reinstate the registrations of a group of voters falsely flagged as noncitizens by an error-prone federal data tool earlier this year, following a lawsuit by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, came weeks after county detectives found that the voters were U.S. citizens. Mayes, a Democrat, alleged that Recorder Justin Heap, a Republican, had nonetheless kept the voters in “not eligible” status on the county’s voter roll, despite investigators’ findings. Voters in that status remain on the rolls but may not receive mail ballots and are required to show proof of their citizenship before being allowed to vote…