On Friday, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that Proposition 140 will remain on the ballot despite the fact that its supporters failed to secure the legal number of signatures required to place it there.
The case before the court involved a challenge by the Free Enterprise Club of the signatures gathered to place the measure on the 2024 general election ballot.
The Club found that 38,000 of the signatures submitted in support of the measure were duplicates. Without those duplicated signatures, the measure would not have qualified to be on the ballot.
A lower court ’s special master then made a determination that 99% of the challenged nominating signatures were in fact duplicates.
Despite this finding, the Arizona Supreme Court unanimously ruled that votes in the November General Election for Proposition 140 would be tabulated.
“We are disappointed in the ruling of the court on this matter,” said Scot Mussi, President of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club. “Our organization proved that the special interest groups attempting to hijack Arizona’s elections systems lacked the minimum number to qualify for the ballot to even be considered by voters in November. The special master in this case also ruled that 99% of the signatures in question should be disqualified. The committee behind the measure was aware of the duplicates, yet they obstructed and delayed the review of the duplicate signatures for over a month.”
Proposition 140 is seeking to enact a California-style election scheme built around ranked choice voting and jungle primaries.
If passed by voters, The Make Elections (Un)Fair Act would do the following for future Arizona elections:
- Allows one politician, the Arizona Secretary of State, to decide how many candidates qualify for the general election ballot for every single contest, including his or her own race.
- Would result in some races where candidates from only one political party appear on the general election ballot.
- Would force voters to navigate two completely different voting systems on the same ballot, with some races requiring voters to rank candidates and others that do not.
- Will increase tabulation errors, create longer lines at the polls, and significantly delay election results.
Kari Lake”s lawsuit proved that signatures were not verified but the judge ruled it was “Ok”.
Now an illlegally placed ballot measure will be allowed and tabulated?
This measure is the most dangerous measure ever put before the voters. It is UN-democratic. Now it is undemocratically placed on the ballot.
So much for the rule of law.
The threat to democracy is the progressives who cheat in every way they can.
Yes, exactly.
yep! low lifes
It’s a horrible law as we have it in California. It leads to a one party system.
Of course it does.
So if judges decide on a whim to apparently ignore a duly enacted law, does that mean I can too? It’s been said that democracy dies in darkness, but in this case it’s pretty blatant.
Why even assign a ‘Special Master’ if their findings are to be summarily discarded and ignored? It’s no wonder Arizonans have lost faith in our legal system. This “Ranked Choice Scheme” is certainly a scheme, a scheme to ensure certain candidates never are allowed to reach whatever office they seek; just look to the chaos that has engulfed Alaska during elections. Of course California applauds the madness, but if Arizona goes this route, we’re truly asking for trouble.
How is this even remotely legal???
If passed by voters, The Make Elections (Un)Fair Act would do the following for future Arizona elections:
* Allows one politician, the Arizona Secretary of State, to decide how many candidates qualify for the general election ballot for every single contest, including his or her own race.
* Would result in some races where candidates from only one political party appear on the general election ballot.
* Would force voters to navigate two completely different voting systems on the same ballot, with some races requiring voters to rank candidates and others that do not.
* Will increase tabulation errors, create longer lines at the polls, and significantly delay election results.
THIS IS THE OVERTHROW OF THE COUNTRY… at least this part of it.
Protecting the nation both foreign and domestic comes to mind!
I really don’t get this. It doesn’t seem justifiable and I think conservatives in the know really thought it would certainly be overturned. AZ Supreme Court has had it’s issues, but this seems way out of line
This is absolutely outrageous. The damage that will ensue if this proposition passes is enormous. The AZ Supreme Court just demonstrated that if you do not follow the law, it’s OK. How is it OK? How does one group, one very anti-democracy group, get to cheat while everybody else has to follow the law? I’m sick.
What use is a ‘Special Master’ if the findings are summarily discarded and ignored? You don’t have to be a lawyer or elections expert to understand that NOT ENOUGH valid signatures were submitted via the petition process to move forward, yet the AZ Supreme’s do so regardless. Wonder why Arizonans no longer have faith in our legal process? As to the ‘ranked choice’ scheme goes, just look to the voting chaos that takes place in Alaska each election now that they’ve adopted the madness…it’s not good.
If this passes no Republican will be on the ballot again.
Lmao this and federal only ballot’s ensure uniparty rule. What a disgrace
The so called conservative party is dead! The sheeple will vote for rank choice because they have no clue what it means. AZ is steadily spiraling down as CA did.