Pinal voters confused over letter about registration status

by Mark Cowling | Casa Grande Dispatch

Nearly 20,000 Pinal County households received mail from the Pinal County Recorder’s Office last week to confirm the address on their voter registration is up-to-date.

The Pinal County Democratic Party, however, is claiming that there were two mistakes in how those letters were written and delivered. According to Chairwoman Hollace Lyon in an email, those letters were mistakenly titled “Final Notice” and made it sound like voters will be taken off the rolls if they do not submit another registration form within 35 days of receipt.

Lyon said the letter should have been titled “Confirmation of Address” and should not have been sent through the National Change of Address system to anyone who has submitted a change of address form within the past 18 years.

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