98,000 Ari­zo­nans whose cit­i­zen­ship had not been con­firmed can vote full bal­lot

The Ari­zona Supreme Court will allow 98,000 peo­ple who aren’t con­firmed cit­i­zens of the Unit­ed States to vote in state and local races, it ruled Fri­day.
Offi­cials had pre­vi­ous­ly dis­cov­ered a mis­take in the state’s vot­er rolls in which those vot­ers were allowed to vote the full bal­lot despite hav­ing pre-1996 driver’s licens­es, which don’t qual­i­fy as proof of cit­i­zen­ship.
Arizona’s Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sec­re­tary of State Adri­an Fontes and Stephen Rich­er, the Repub­li­can Mari­co­pa Coun­ty recorder, couldn’t come to an agree­ment about what to do with the vot­ers. Rich­er cast the issue to the state Supreme Court, advis­ing Fontes ignored Ari­zo …