Ari­zona elec­tion data­base flags 100,000 vot­ers as pos­si­ble nonci­t­i­zens: ‘Cod­ing over­sight’

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<div>Arizona election database flags 100,000 voters as possible noncitizens: 'Coding oversight'</div>

A “cod­ing over­sight” in state soft­ware is call­ing into ques­tion the cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus of 100,000 reg­is­tered Ari­zona vot­ers, prompt­ing the state’s Demo­c­ra­t­ic sec­re­tary of state to insist he will send out bal­lots to those affect­ed anyway.“I am unwill­ing to dis­en­fran­chise this many vot­ers by lim­it­ing them, sud­den­ly, and with lit­tle notice, to a fed­er­al-only bal­lot when none of them had actu­al notice of or blame for this issue,” Sec­re­tary of State Adri­an Fontes said dur­ing a Tues­day news con­fer­ence. “We inher­it­ed this prob­lem, we’re on it, and we’re going to fix it. It’s as sim­ple as that.“WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE …