PHOENIX — The nearly three-week extension of Arizona’s voter registration deadline has ended after a ruling in an appeals court on Tuesday.
The deadline to register was previously pushed back to Oct. 23 after a complaint filed by voter advocacy groups, but the court ruling means it will end after a two-day grace period.
In a filing Sunday evening with the Federal Appeals Court in San Francisco, Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said the extension “imposes a heavy burden on some counties."
She warns that the administrative work associated with registering new voters could cut into the 14-day period for counting early ballots.
The original voter registration deadline was Oct. 5. Hours before the deadline, a federal judge in Phoenix pushed it back to Oct. 23, ruling that the pandemic had interfered with voter registration.
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