For Star subscribers: U.S. District Court Judge Dominic Lanza said in a tentative ruling that he's inclined to let voter rights groups challenge a law eliminating Arizona's permanent early voting list.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — A 2021 statement by a veteran Republican lawmaker may be just enough to allow voting rights groups to challenge a law eliminating the state's permanent early voting list.
But the judge said that evidence presented by challengers shows the law will have a disparate impact on different racial groups. And it's that effect — coupled with the comments of Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, that has Lanza telling the lawyers in the case that he's inclined to let the case go forward.
Attorney Rodney Ott, representing challengers, cited a study that shows that Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely to be"intermittent or rare voters compared to white voters'' and therefore more likely to lose out on those automatic early ballots. Ditto, he said, of people with lower income. "The question is not the purpose of Rep. Kavanagh but the purpose of the legislature as a whole," he wrote. And Ensign said the challengers offer"essentially nothing" to prove that point."Although Rep. Kavanagh first addressed voter fraud, he then transitioned, for unexplained reasons, into an argument for reducing the voting population based on the 'quality' of voters,'' the judge wrote.
The judge found other faults with the Ensign's arguments the challenge to the law has no merits and needs to be dismissed. That statute spells out that people who forget to sign their early ballots must go to election offices personally by 7 p.m. on Election Day and sign them if they want their vote to be counted. Challengers said that's not fair, given that people who are notified that their signatures don't match have up to five days after the election to"cure" the problem.
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