Trump campaign seeks to intervene in Arizona mail-in ballot legal fight

[RandySF]

The Trump campaign is asking a federal judge to allow it to intervene in a lawsuit brought by a group of Navajo Nation residents seeking to ease Arizona's mail-in ballot deadline.

The campaign filed a motion Thursday arguing that the lawsuit would unfairly give reservation residents an exception to state law requiring that ballots be received by Election Day, which could affect the campaign's chance of success in the state.

Arizona is one of a half-dozen swing states likely to decide the presidential election between President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

The campaign also argued that the election would be thrown into chaos if Arizona were forced to accept certain ballots as long as they were postmarked on or before Nov. 3.

"Counting these ballots would affect [the campaign] and other candidates seeking office at the local, state, and federal level because it would change the share of votes those candidates receive and give preference to one specific type of voter over all others," the campaign wrote in its motion.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/515197-trump-campaign-seeks-to-intervene-in-arizona-mail-in-ballot-legal-fight

[Karadeniz]

1. Abuse of power.

[crickets]

2. So petty. No little angle on voter suppression is too small or mean.

"Voting by mail systems rest upon the premise that all citizens have equal mail service, however, hundreds of thousands of rural Americans have non-standard mail service burdened with a range of service limits including irregular service or unreliable service, no residential delivery, excessive distances to post offices or other postal providers with limited hours of operation among other issues," the Navajo Nation members wrote in their complaint.

Hobbs said earlier this week that the deadline and its restrictions are set by state law, but that her office would comply with a court order easing the deadline.

The need to balance the lack of equality in mail service sounds perfectly reasonable.