Judge rules against Navajo Nation voter lawsuit to force Arizona to count late-arriving mail-in ballots – By Andrew Oxford (Arizona Republic) / Sept 25 2020
A federal judge on Friday denied a request by several voters to require that election officials count mail ballots received from the Navajo Nation after 7 p.m. on Election Day, as long as the ballots are postmarked before that deadline.
The voters argued that slow mail service and long distances between drop-off locations mean their votes may not be counted even if they send in ballots several days before Election Day.
But Judge G. Murray Snow wrote that they did not provide any evidence that ballots from Navajo voters were disproportionately tossed out because of the deadline.
Snow also wrote that the evidence in the case did not show that issues like slow mail service disproportionately impact Navajo voters instead or rural voters more broadly.
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