Pinal County rejected ballots likely, under Arizona Supreme Court ruling

Pinal County voters who show up to vote at the wrong polling place on Election Day will not be provided a way to vote the correct ballot at that location, despite a new state rule, under an Arizona Supreme Court ruling.

In an emergency ruling issued Friday, the court determined it is too late to force the county to follow the rule, which Secretary of State Adrian Fontes created in December 2023. It requires Arizona counties that assign voters to a specific polling place make it possible for voters to cast the correct ballot, even if they go to a site other than the one to which they’ve been assigned.

Chief Justice Ann Scott Timmer wrote that the Supreme Court would uphold the lower court decision, which said that requiring the county to follow the rule now would create “unacceptable risk of chaos, uncertainty, and confusion.”

“Indeed, early voting has already begun,” Timmer wrote.




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