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No. 25-1017 · October Term 2026
Does the National Voter Registration Act or a federal consent decree prohibit Arizona from requiring voter-registration applicants to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship, and does the National Voter Registration Act prohibit Arizona from canceling the registrations of non-citizens within 90 days of a federal election?
Arizona has required U.S. citizenship as a qualification to vote since statehood in 1912. In 2004, Arizona voters passed Proposition 200, which required voter-registration applicants to provide satisfactory documentary proof of citizenship. That requirement reached the Supreme Court in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona (2013), where the Court held the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) preempted Arizona’s demand that proof of citizenship accompany the federal voter-registration form, but the Court simultaneously recognized that state-developed registration forms may require information the federal form does not, including proof of citizenship. Seizing on that opening, Arizona’s legislature enacted H.B. 2492 and H.B. 2243 in 2022, which required applicants using the state registration form to submit documentary proof of citizenship (such as a birth certificate, passport, or driver’s license) and directed county recorders to reject state forms lacking that documentation. The 2022 laws also required county recorders to periodically cross-check citizenship databases and cancel the registrations of any individuals confirmed to be non-citizens. A separate wrinkle arose…
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