• AZ Prohibits Out-of-Precinct Voting and Ballot Harvesting • SCOTUS Is Asked to Overturn Appeals Court Ruling that Struck Down Arizona Election Integrity Laws
Judicial Watch Joins Allied Educational Foundation to ask SCOTUS to Uphold Arizona’s Electoral Integrity Laws
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it joined with Allied Educational Foundation (AEF) to file an amici curiae (friends of the court) brief in the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Arizona’s electoral integrity laws that prohibit out-of-precinct voting and ballot harvesting.
The amici brief was submitted in the case Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. v. Democratic National Committee, et al. (Nos. 19-1257 & 1258), coming on appeal from the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Initially, a Ninth Circuit panel of judges affirmed the district court ruling upholding Arizona’s election integrity laws that prohibit out-of-precinct voting and ballot harvesting, but then the full appeals court overturned the district court ruling. The Ninth Circuit held that Arizona’s prohibition on out-of-precinct voting and third-party collection and delivery of early ballots (ballot harvesting) were enacted with a discriminatory purpose and had discriminatory results, in violation of Section 2 of the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA). The Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari to hear the appeal on April 27, 2020.
