Personal information of some Arizona voters accidentally included in report
Mar 19, 2020, 4:45 AM | Updated: 6:53 am
(AP Photo)
(AP Photo)
PHOENIX – The personal data of 78 Arizona voters was accidentally included in an early balloting report that went out to counties, the Secretary of State’s Office said.
None of the voters were in Maricopa or Pima counties, the office said in a press release Tuesday, during Arizona’s Democratic presidential preference election.
“A county official informed us today that their report included protected voters,” Katie Hobbs, the chief elections officer for Arizona, said.
Some of the voters have protected status either because of their jobs or because they were victims of certain crime, the office said.
Hobbs tweeted out assurances the voter registration database had not been breached.
BREAKING: The Arizona Voter Registration Database is secure. Information related to some protected voters was erroneously included in recent reports generated from the database. Efforts to correct underway.
READ MORE: https://t.co/9j3jcNfKmV
— Secretary Katie Hobbs (@SecretaryHobbs) March 18, 2020
The error was a malfunction in the system, her office said.
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“We contacted all the counties to let them know that their reports may also contain this protected information,” Hobbs said.
The report focuses on early ballots and which voters have received and returned them.
The office asked that the reports be returned or destroyed.
The process that generates the reports from the database has been updated to make sure the error wasn’t repeated.
