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."
Richer filed an emergency petition with the Arizona
Supreme Court arguing that the law states that these voters should be deemed ineligible to vote in upcoming
elections, only to be opposed in court by the same Republicans who had long championed such rules.