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MALDEF FILES LAWSUIT CHALLENGING PROP. 200 VOTER RESTRICTIONS PHOENIX, ARIZONA

By immigrationprof

Today, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) filed suit in federal court challenging the voter registration and identification provisions of Proposition 200. MALDEF filed the case on behalf of individual voters and voter registration applicants as well as the following organizations: Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, Valle del Sol, Friendly House, Chicanos Por La Causa and the Arizona Hispanic Community Forum. Proposition 200 requires that in order to register to vote, U.S. citizens must provide a government document proving their citizenship and all voters are mandated to show government identification before they are allowed to vote at the polls. As interpreted by Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer, Proposition 200 prohibits U.S. citizens from using the federally mandated voter registration form established by Congress when it passed the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) in 1993.

KJ