Court blocks enforcement of Arizona's voter intimidation rules, just before election

[dobleremolque]

Source: Arizona Mirror
By: Jen Fifield/Votebeat - August 6, 2024

Arizona’s rules aimed at preventing specific types of voter intimidation and harassment near polling places and drop boxes are too broad and violate free speech rights, a Maricopa County judge ruled.

The rules, some of which have been in place for years, prohibit anyone from following, photographing, videotaping, or yelling at voters outside drop boxes or polling places, along with other activities that Secretary of State Adrian Fontes had declared were intimidating. Tuesday’s injunction from Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Jennifer Ryan-Touhill temporarily prohibits Arizona officials from enforcing the rules, until the court can issue a final ruling in the matter.

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.

The ruling comes just two months before early voting begins for the presidential election, and as Republican groups pledge to watch over the polls. The Republican National Committee, for example, launched a “Protect the Vote” tour in June to recruit poll watchers, poll workers, and lawyers to “ensure it is easy to vote and hard to cheat.”

Fontes’s office said in a statement Tuesday that it will appeal the order.

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All the more reason to vote by mail.

[wolfie001]

1. All the replug incels will be out in force with their AR-15s

Disgusting pig Nat-zees.

[GB_RN]

2. I Fail To See How It Inhibits Free Speech.

Assholes can still be assholes. They just have to do it from “over there.” Same goes in a polling place: You can get locked up for being a douchebag in a precinct polling station. There’s a reason there’s a buffer zone between the polling station and where you can “electioneer” (aka, be a dick).

[slightlv]

3. I don't expect any of these

types of shenanigans to go on here at my little polling place, but I AM on the height of awareness about what's going on around me and mine. And I'll do that especially on Nov 5. Today, it was just primary day for us. But you should have seen my hackles raise when hubs insisted for a few minutes that his ballot was different from mine. Then, as I described mine in more detail, he changed his opinion and admitted that yes, the two were the same. It's always better to be suspicious these days with repubs around no matter where you are, IMO.