By Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | AZ Mirror
A Maricopa County Superior Court Judge ruled Wednesday that Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes must defend his decision to withhold the names of 218,000 voters who have been improperly registered to vote because of a glitch in the state’s driver’s license database.
The conservative group that requested the names of the voters, run by one of former President Donald Trump’s top legal aides, filed the lawsuit earlier this month seeking the information.
The decades-long glitch, which was first discovered last month, meant that some Arizonans who received a driver’s license before 1996 were inaccurately labeled as having provided proof of citizenship, which is a requirement to register to vote in the Grand Canyon State.