Ariz. AG asks for Pima County's transportation election ballots

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Arizona Daily Star

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/281112.php

The state Attorney General’s office has made an “informal” request that Pima County Treasurer
turn over the ballots from the 2006 Regional Transportation Authority election.

An employee of the Attorney General’s office contacted the attorney for Beth Ford, Pima County Treasurer,
to see if she would give him the ballots, said John Richardson, Ford’s attorney.

The ballots are the subject of a court hearing scheduled for Monday. Ford has asked Pima County Superior Court Judge
Charles Harrington whether she should destroy the ballots, as called for in state law, or keep them as investigations
and questions about the election continue.

Richardson said he would bring the new request to the judge’s attention Monday, and leave the decision up to him.
Ford has not argued for the preservation or destruction of the ballots, she simply wants a court order either way,
she has said. Richardson said the same is true of the latest request, he would alert the judge and leave the decision to Harrington.