Arizona: Former attorney general: Maricopa County Recorder Fontes’ voter-registration fix is ‘reasonable’ | The Arizona Republic
Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes has lowered an estimate of American citizens in the county whose voter registrations were blocked because they didn’t fill out the form correctly,basing his new estimate on further research into roughly 100,000 registration forms that initially were rejected by the office. Fontes’ effort to register citizens who were initially blocked was endorsed Wednesday by a former Arizona attorney general. After digging more deeply into the matter this week, Fontes said a non-scientific sample suggests the number of citizens who weren’t able to register could be closer to 17,000 rather than the roughly 58,000 originally thought.