亚利桑那总检察长起诉马里科帕县记录官：要求立即恢复25名被误标选民资格
亚利桑那州总检察长 Kris Mayes 10月21日对马里科帕县记录官 Justin Heap 提起诉讼，要求法院下令恢复25名选民的完整登记资格，并立即向其中已登记邮寄投票的选民寄出选票。非营利选举新闻机构 Votebeat 于10月22日报道并更新了此案进展。
这25名选民此前被联邦“系统性外籍人士验证”（SAVE）数据工具错误标记为非公民。马里科帕县检察官 Rachel Mitchell 此前宣布，经调查确认被移交审查且曾投票的60人中有52人为美国公民，但诉讼称 Justin Heap 仍将其中的25人登记状态标注为“不合格”（not eligible）。处于该状态的选民虽仍在选民名册上，但收不到邮寄选票，现场投票时还须出示公民身份证明。诉状写道，若无法院救济，这25名选民将在2026年大选中被剥夺投票权，“时间至关重要”。
Kris Mayes 在诉状中还请求法院颁布禁令，禁止 Justin Heap 阻止这些选民投票。Justin Heap 回应称，Kris Mayes 是在搞“党派政治表演”，并表示在收到证明选民公民身份的文件之前不会恢复其资格，“新闻发布会不是公民身份证明，诉讼也不是”。马里科帕县监事会主席 Kate Brophy McGee 10月22日表示，起诉是“恰当的一步”，她相信记录官会做正确的事、恢复这些选民的权利。此案源于今年春季 Justin Heap 将207名疑似非公民选民移交检方审查，其中60人曾投过票，最终仅8人被确认为非公民。
Arizona attorney general sues Maricopa County recorder: demands immediate reinstatement of 25 wrongly flagged voters
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes sued Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap on October 21, asking a court to order the full reinstatement of 25 voters and the immediate mailing of ballots to those registered to vote by mail. The nonprofit election news outlet Votebeat reported the case on October 22 and updated it the same day.
The 25 voters had been falsely flagged as noncitizens by the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) data tool. Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell previously announced that investigators had confirmed 52 of the 60 referred voters who had cast ballots were U.S. citizens, but the lawsuit says Heap has kept 25 of them in "not eligible" status. Voters in that status remain on the rolls but do not receive mail ballots and must show proof of citizenship to vote in person. Absent court relief, the suit says, the 25 voters will be denied their right to vote in the 2026 general election, and "time is of the essence."
Mayes also asked the court for an injunction barring Heap from preventing the voters from casting ballots. Heap responded that Mayes had chosen "partisan political theater" and said he would not restore the registrations until his office received documentation proving citizenship: "A press conference is not proof of citizenship. Neither is a lawsuit." Kate Brophy McGee, chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, said on October 22 that the lawsuit was "an appropriate step" and that she believed the recorder would do the right thing. The case stems from Heap's referral this spring of 207 suspected noncitizen voters to prosecutors; 60 of them had previously voted, and only eight were ultimately confirmed to be noncitizens.
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
图片来源：位于 Phoenix 的亚利桑那州议会大厦。摄影：David Jiang，CC BY-SA 4.0，来源：Wikimedia Commons
