GOP lawsuit looks to throw out absentee voting in Arizona

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

GOP lawsuit looks to throw out absentee voting in Arizona

By JONATHAN J. COOPER
February 28, 2022

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Republican Party is asking the state Supreme Court to strike down the vote-by-mail system used by 90% of voters in a battleground state that will be crucial to determining which party controls the U.S. Senate after the 2022 election.

The lawsuit filed Friday argues absentee voting is unconstitutional and asks the justices to get rid of it or at least eliminate the no-excuse absentee balloting system Arizona adopted in 1991 and has steadily expanded ever since.

“In-person voting at the polls on a fixed date (election day) is the only constitutional manner of voting in Arizona,” lawyers for the GOP wrote in their petition to the Arizona Supreme Court.

The lawsuit comes amid GOP efforts on many fronts to remake the system for casting and counting votes as former President Donald Trump repeats the lie that he lost the 2020 election because of fraud in Arizona and other battleground states.

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[kimbutgar]

1. A lot of old Republican voters vote by mail

They are hurting their won voters!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Yes they are.

No excuse absentee voting and Mail-in voting are very popular with Republican voters.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. In-Person does not work for those voters who.....

1) Live in group or Nursing homes(Seniors)
2) Are disabled and prefer curbside voting if driven to a polling site.
3) Visually impaired who need Braille or someone to read the ballot for them.

Arizona Republicans want to make it harder for everyone to vote. Republican candidate running for Sec. of State in Minnesota wants to eliminate much of the progress made to make voting easier.

[Karadeniz]

4. Weren't votes mailed in during the Civil War or am I thinking of something else? I googled.

Actually, in 1600's Massachusetts, men could vote from home if they feared an Indian attack. Well, some of us might fear going to sites with vigilante Republican monitors !!