A federal appeals court on Sept. 20 reinstated two provisions of a law pertaining to elections in Arizona that had been blocked.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit panel reinstated the law that enables county recorders to cancel a voter’s registration if the county learns the voter has registered to vote in another county. The duplicate registration must be confirmed with the other county, per the law.
U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow in 2022 entered a preliminary injunction blocking the provisions, finding that it conflicted with the National Voter Registration Act, which only permits revoking voter registration if the voter him or herself confirms they moved or if the state sends a notice to the voter and they don’t respond….