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The Center for American Progress reports
As residents of Arizona's eighth congressional district cast ballots in a special election to replace former Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) in Congress, roughly 140,000 of them may be unaware they are eligible to vote because they did not receive the ID card the county is required to send them after they register.
According to the Arizona Republic, Maricopa County officials have not sent all voters the cards they can use to cast a ballot under Arizona's voter ID law because of an issue with the company used to print the materials. The paper reports that just 60,000 ID cards have been mailed to people who recently registered or changed their registration, while about 140,000 have not been sent.
[...] Arizona was one of the first states in the country to enact a non-photo voter ID law when a ballot measure was approved by voters[1] in November 2004. Under the law, the state must take steps to ensure that all eligible voters have an acceptable form of ID. According to the secretary of state's office[PDF], "a county recorder must issue a voter ID card to any new registrant or an existing registrant who updates his or her name, address, or political party preference".
But because of an error by the company used to print the ID cards, they have not been mailed out since December.
Although these citizens could provide other forms of ID at the polls, some voters told the Arizona Republic they're concerned that less informed voters may not realize they are registered without the card.
[...] During the presidential primary in March 2016, some Maricopa County voters waited in line for up to five hours to cast a ballot. The chaos led to an investigation by the Department of Justice and numerous lawsuits, including one filed by the Democratic National Committee.
Before the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, Arizona was required to pre-clear any changes to its voting law with the DOJ.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by jmorris on Saturday April 28 2018, @06:32PM
You have only identified a fundamental flaw with our current "Justice" system. The fact nothing can ever be done through a court in less than a year (other than stopping Trump unmaking DACA or making any other change to immigration law.... those take hours) is the problem you are concerned with. Admitting the courts aren't fixable and giving the Executive branch what are obviously Judicial powers is no solution. Fixing the courts is the solution.
At this point the process is the punishment. Look how many cases take years and years to get to entirely obvious conclusions. Or to even start. Look at a case I happened to notice again recently. The lawsuit between Michael Mann and Mark Steyn has drug on for years and can't even get to the discovery phase after hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal expense. Does anyone think a 99% person has a possibility of getting justice in such a system? Do YOU have a few hundred thousand dollars and hundreds of hours to waste on just the earliest pre trial motions? IBM v SCO was another entirely obvious case between two very well funded litigants that again took a decade to drag to a bitter end so far after the events that nobody cared anymore. Cops can catch a killer, have video and DNA and it will still be years before a conviction and in a death penalty case another decade or two of pointless wrangling. So neither civil or criminal law work anymore.
A normal sane person believes nothing that happens in a courthouse can possibly benefit them, only harm them. Any attempt by a normal person to use the courts will simply bankrupt them. That is a problem.