Ari­zona Supreme Court rules 98,000 peo­ple whose cit­i­zen­ship is uncon­firmed can vote in piv­otal elec­tion

Near­ly 98,000 peo­ple whose U.S. cit­i­zen­ship has not been con­firmed will be allowed to vote in the upcom­ing state and local elec­tions, the Ari­zona Supreme Court ruled Friday.The rul­ing came after a “cod­ing over­sight” in state soft­ware prompt­ed the swing state’s Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sec­re­tary of State Adri­an Fontes to insist that he would send out bal­lots to those affect­ed anyway.The data­base error called into ques­tion the cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus of 100,000 reg­is­tered Ari­zona vot­ers, affect­ing …