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Another Arizona election law is being challenged in court, with the Justice Department suing to block a strict voter ID law that requires proof of citizenship for both federal and state voter registration applications. The Supreme Court struck down a similar Arizona law in 2013. File photo by Natasha Khan / Cronkite News
WASHINGTON – Voting rights advocates last Wednesday welcomed the Justice Department's decision to sue over Arizona's strict new voter ID law that federal officials called a "textbook violation of the National Voter Registration Act."
It's just the latest legal challenge to election laws in Arizona, which have landed before the Supreme Court twice in recent years – winning once and losing once – in what has become a frustrating "broken record" for some advocates.
"It's very disturbing and it's just getting tiring," said Petra Falcon, executive director of Promise Arizona. "What a waste of money, waste of energy."
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