AZ Supreme Court takes back direction not to count votes for Prop 140, if it's disqualified
With fewer than two months to go until the election, uncertainty still surrounds the fate of a ballot measure that would ask voters to do away with Arizona’s partisan primary elections. And the Arizona Supreme Court just added to the confusion.
On Monday, the state’s high court vacated a statement from its Aug. 23 ruling that said if a trial court determines that the Make Elections Fair Act did not collect enough voter signatures, the judge should order the Secretary of State not to count the votes for it.
“It’s clearly been extremely deleterious to our campaign, to put this uncertainty around an issue that has already been ordered on the ballot,” Chuck Coughlin, whose public affairs firm, Highground, is leading the campaign behind the act, told the Arizona Mirror. “And it’s unfair to us. It’s a violation, in my opinion, of civil rights. And we’ll argue that in front of the court.”
The ballots have already been printed, with the Make Elections Fair Act, also known as Proposition 140, already on them. The only question is whether votes cast for the proposition will be counted.
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