An election official in Arizona is to ask a court Tuesday to rule on whether almost 100,000 long-term residents will be able to vote in state and local polls this November after discovering they had not proved their US citizenship.

Nearing the end of the annual Navajo Nation parade route last Saturday, the Arizona Republican Party’s float — pulled by an 18-wheeler and adorned with Trump-Vance campaign signs — came to a halt.

A Maricopa County judge has rejected an effort to prevent votes from being counted on a citizen initiative that would change Arizona primary elections, a ruling that brings a measure of clarity as the first ballots are being sent to voters.

Republican leaders are siding with Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state in a legal dispute over whether roughly 97,000 voters should get a full ballot this election, arguing that, despite the uncertainty that those voters ever turned in proof of citizenship,