An Arizona judge on Thursday ordered Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes to release a list of approximately 98,000 voters affected by an apparent coding error in the state’s registration system.
The deadline for the release of the Maricopa County voters list is Nov. 4, less than 24 hours before in-person voting begins on Election Day.
State officials had identified a significant problem in Arizona’s voter record-keeping earlier that affects individuals who obtained their driver’s licenses before October 1996 and registered to vote after February 2004.
More than 218,000 registrants in the state’s database were classified as having full ballot access without confirmation they are…