The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office is standing by its choice to restore voter registration status of individuals affected by a glitch that impacted 218,000 voters.
“Maricopa County did not receive a complete list from the Secretary of State’s Office regarding who may have been impacted by the MVD data oversight,” the Recorder’s Office said in a statement to Fox News in part.
“However, if impacted voters submitted a new voter registration form after the oversight was found, they appeared in our system as needing to provide DPOC upon their new registration form being processed.
These voters were contacted individually to let them know their registration was incomplete. However, after further consideration, the decision was made to fully restore those voters from the not registered status, only if they were previously an existing, registered voter,” the statement read.
Now, these voters can participate in the upcoming election as they did before, the recorder’s office said.
“Additionally, we know roughly 2,000 voters who were impacted in the MVD data oversight submitted voter registration updates and some of those may have been contacted about providing DPOC,” the statement read.
The county recorder added, “but since then, regardless of if they have provided that additional information, they have since been restored their original status for this election.”
Arizona’s high court ruled last Thursday the county must provide a conservative watchdog group with a list of noncitizens currently registered to vote after a lawsuit was lobbed against the county last year.
During an evidentiary hearing, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes testified that a system error had affected approximately 218,000 registered voters, the court document states.
