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Ninth Circuit Grants Emergency Stay of Arizona Judge’s Order Rewriting an Arizona Election Law Statute

By Thomas A. Smith

Today the Ninth Circuit granted a stay of an order issued by District of Arizona Judge Douglas Rayes an Obama appointee invalidating an Arizona statute requiring early voters to return their ballots along with a signed ballot affidavit to polling officials by 7:00 PM on Election Day.   Any ballot deemed to have an insufficient affidavit (including one that is missing a signature) is to be disallowed by polling officials.  If an early voter returns a ballot with an unsigned affidavit, Arizona law affords the early voter an opportunity to cure the problem, but only until the general Election Day deadline.

via www.redstate.com