Arizona Election Law

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[Jeremy Duda @jeremyduda]

.@AZAGMayes will sue to oust former Rep. @DaveMarshallAZ as Navajo County recorder, her office tells me. Republican elections attorney Timothy La Sota also filed a lawsuit today to remove Marshall and to force Mayes to take action.

[Arizona Election Law @azelectionlaw]

Arizona federal district court dismisses USDOJ lawsuit seeking Arizona’s statewide voter registration list.

[Stacey Barchenger @sbarchenger]

Candidate for #AZgov @hughforgovernor will be on the ballot as Maricopa County judge yesterday dismissed second of two cases trying to keep him off. The other case was dismissed last week.

Background at the link.
https://t.co/M1HF6kWawX via @azcentral

[Wayne Schutsky @WayneSchutsky]

Update: No Labels/Arizona Indpt Party candidates Christopher Ajluni (CD1) and Jessie Martines (CD8) have withdrawn, per the Secretary of State.

[Stacey Barchenger @sbarchenger]

Today @USAadvocate4all filed a challenge to @hughforgovernor's signatures to make the ballot. Both are running under Arizona Independent Party/No Labels banner.
Hourihan claims Lytle has only 1,219 valid signatures, short of the 1,771 needed and shouldn't be on the ballot.

[Stacey Barchenger @sbarchenger]

Arizona Independent Party chair Paul Johnson tells me he will appeal a ruling, published this morning, that @AZSecretary could not change the name of No Labels Party to AIP without going through signature process. So, more legal wrangling on the way.

[Jeremy Duda @jeremyduda]

A Maricopa County judge ruled that Secretary of State @Adrian_Fontes lacked legal authority to permit the No Labels Party to change its name to the Arizona Independent Party and that state law has no procedure for parties to change their names. https://t.co/FO8bJ85qYx

[Capitol Media Services 📢 Telling it like it is @azcapmedia]

@JDMesnard seeking to tell charter cities like Tucson, Prescott, and Tempe that they have to hold their elections on the same day as national and statewide votes despite claims by cities that such a schedule buries their own issues on the ballot. https://t.co/P09nqM38PB

[Jeremy Duda @jeremyduda]

Senate Judiciary & Elections Committee unanimously OKs SB1609, which bars new political parties from using words like "independent" or "unaffiliated" in their names. It would retroactively bar the No Labels Party's name change to the AZ Independent Party. https://t.co/AfCoLegjMI

[Jeremy Duda @jeremyduda]

State law was changed yesterday to move the primary election up by two weeks, which means the signature deadline is now two weeks earlier, on March 23. Not being able to use E-Qual this weekend is a big blow to any candidate who doesn’t have all their signatures yet.

[Jeremy Duda @jeremyduda]

The Secretary of State's Office is working toward getting E-Qual back online later today, they tell me. For now, the site is down for maintenance. They describe last night's outage and today's outage as two separate incidents.

[Brahm Resnik @brahmresnik]

ELECTION CALENDAR State Senate passes & sends to @GovernorHobbs bill that moves up 2026 primary election by 2 weeks, to July 21. Early ballots will be mailed June 24 - just 4 months out. And the electeds who run Maricopa County's elections are at war. https://t.co/pBH3mTHfMw

[Wayne Schutsky @WayneSchutsky]

Update: The County Attorney's lawyer is asking the AZ Supreme Court to take up an appeal of this ruling.

[Wayne Schutsky @WayneSchutsky]

Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell has no authority to block a Trump-aligned law firm from representing Recorder Justin Heap in his ongoing legal fight with the board of supervisors over control of the county’s elections, a judge ruled.

https://t.co/wb5dnrinJl

[Brahm Resnik @brahmresnik]

US Department of Justice sues @AZSecretary Adrian Fontes for voter rolls.
DOJ claims "sweeping power to obtain these records."
Fontes: “They’re going to have to put me in jail if they want this information.” https://t.co/RTJfpXTM4f

[Arizona Election Law @azelectionlaw]

AZ Federal District Court holds that PILF has standing to request certain voter registration-related ERIC records under NVRA; denies @AZSecretary’s motion to dismiss.

[Arizona Secretary of State @AZSecretary]

PRESS RELEASE: Fontes, Hobbs, Mayes give official approval of 2025 EPM

[The AZ - abc15 - Data Guru @Garrett_Archer]

The @AZGOP and @votewarren snag a win at the AZ Court of Appeals.

Individuals who indicate they cannot serve on a jury because they moved out of the county (ahem...) must have their registration canceled.

[Arizona Election Law @azelectionlaw]

Arizona Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Arizona’s judicial retention system.

[Jeremy Duda @jeremyduda]

Chandler City Councilman @od_harris will go to trial tomorrow in his case over alleged destruction of anti-Harris campaign signs after a judge denied his request to reschedule. https://t.co/ce1GheNDUd