By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services/Arizona Daily Star
Arizona cannot require people to produce proof of citizenship before they register to vote, at least not for federal elections, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this morning.
Without comment the justices upheld a ruling of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals which said neither Arizona nor Kansas can demand the federal Election Assistance Commission add a proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal registration form the panel designed.
In that ruling, Justice Carlos Lucero, writing for the unanimous three-judge panel, said Alice Miller, the commission’s acting director, was within her rights to reject the request by Ken Bennett, then the Arizona secretary of state, and Kris Kobach, , his Kansas counterpart.
