"The three [Arizona Democratic] state officials learned a computer glitch meant 98,000 voters had not provided proof of citizenship. In a candid phone call, they debated what to do."

The Washington Post reports (free-access link).

Their predicament was “an urgent, a dire situation,” Gov. Katie Hobbs said, according to audio of the call obtained by The Washington Post. Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said critics would “beat us up no matter what the hell we do.” Attorney General Kris Mayes worried they would be accused of rigging the 2024 election in a crucial state....

"Arizona’s Republican governor.... Doug Ducey is driving a project that is placing double-stacked old shipping containers through several miles of national forest, attempting..."

"... to fill gaps in Donald Trump’s intermittent border fencing. The rusting hulks, topped with razor wire and with bits of metal jammed into gaps, stretch for more than three miles through Coronado national forest land, south of Tucson, and the governor has announced plans to extend that up to 10 miles, at a cost of $95m (£78m). The area, with mountain ranges rising abruptly from the desert and a diverse environment of plants and animals, is federal land maintained by the US Forest Service."

The Guardian reports, in "Arizona governor builds border wall of shipping crates in final days of office."

If it's federal land, maintained by the federal government, why doesn't the federal government stop this ramshackle building project? Is this just another side of the federal government's inability/unwillingness to control the border?

It turns out, there is a lawsuit: