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(The Center Square) – Nearly 100,000 voters who haven’t submitted citizenship documents might be prevented from participating in Arizona’s state and local elections. A coding error has allowed approximately 98,000 people in Maricopa County to vote in Arizona without proof of citizenship for decades. Gov. Katie Hobbs and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes announced on Tuesday that Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer discovered this error during “routine voter roll maintenance” and reported it on Sept. 7. The error affects voters who received their driver’s licenses before Oct. 1, 1996. Before…

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