Judge tosses GOP lawsuit to purge 1.27 million Arizona voters
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit launched by Arizona Republicans claiming that the state is violating federal law by failing to clean up the state’s voter registration list, saying there is no legal grounds to sue.
Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Gina Swoboda, Arizona Free Enterprise Club President Scot Mussi and Republican businessman Steven Gaynor — who unsuccessfully ran to be the state’s top elections official in 2018 — filed the lawsuit in federal court earlier this year, alleging that Secretary of State Adrian Fontes’ inaction violates the National Voter Registration Act. The trio claim that the Democrat has failed to purge over a million ineligible and unaccounted for voters from Arizona’s voter registration rolls, diluting their votes as eligible voters and costing the Arizona Republican Party time and resources on voter education and mobilization campaigns.
The NVRA directs states to make reasonable efforts to maintain their voter rolls.
But in an order issued Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Dominic Lanza dismissed the lawsuit, siding with Fontes’ argument that the Republicans don’t have sufficient standing to sue his office.
https://azmirror.com/2024/12/05/judge-tosses-gop-lawsuit-to-purge-1-27-million-arizona-voters/