A lawsuit making its way through Yavapai County could potentially impact thousands of Arizona voters, especially those living in the state for a long time.
The lawsuit seeks to limit the signatures counties can use to verify an early ballot to only the voter registration form. A motion to dismiss by Secretary of State Adrian Fontes was denied by the judge who called the language in the statute that governs signature comparisons “clear and unambiguous.”
“When you sign and send back your ballot, as the vast majority of voters in Arizona do, that signature is checked against a voter file that includes things like all your other signatures and prior ballots, as well as your original registration,” Collins said. While the judge’s dismissal is not a final order, any ruling would only impact Yavapai County initially. The law is statewide, however, meaning any ruling in favor of the plaintiffs would have to be addressed by the remaining fourteen counties. An analysis of a recent statewide voter file shows nearly 40% of registration forms, and therefore likely signatures, are over 14 years old. Sixteen percent of voters have a registration form on file over 24 years old.
“If I had to guess I would say it would result in a lot more curing, meaning we would need to contact the voters and say, hey, your signature doesn’t look like the now only one signature that we have on file for you, that might be from forty of fifty years ago,” Richer said.
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