Trump campaign seeks to block Navajo Nation voters' lawsuit over Arizona mail-in ballots
President Donald Trump's re-election campaign is fighting a group of Navajo Nation citizens who want Arizona's mail-in voting requirements changed in line with a dozen other states, for fear that ballots sent from the tribe's reservation won't be counted in the November election.
The motion filed Thursday in federal court by the Trump campaign and other state and national Republican committees attempts to undercut the message of six Navajo plaintiffs who say in a lawsuit that the state's current stipulation — that mail-in ballots must be received before 7 p.m. Nov. 3 instead of postmarked by that date — could disenfranchise Native American voters.
"Plaintiffs seek to create a race- and geography-based exception to a long-standing, generally applicable state law that would give certain citizens more time to return their requested early ballots than every other Arizona voter in the upcoming General Election," Brett Johnson, an attorney for the campaign, wrote in the filing.
"What is more, Plaintiffs' unwarranted delay in bringing their claims on the eve of a General Election threatens the orderly administration of that election," the motion continued, adding that changing the deadline rule "would unquestionably affect the share of votes that candidates in the State of Arizona receive."
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