Appeals Court Might Revisit Arizona Ballot Collection Law

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

By bob christie, associated press
PHOENIX — Oct 29, 2016, 8:03 PM ET

A federal appeals court may reconsider a ruling where a panel of its judges decided not to block a new Arizona law making it a felony to collect early ballots from voters.

A judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Saturday requested a full court vote on whether to convene a so-called 'en banc' review of the opinion leaving the new law in place.

Usually such requests come from the losing party in a lawsuit, but a judge on the panel may also request a vote. En banc reviews normally involve a panel of 11 appeals court judges.

A split three-judge panel late Friday refused to block the law, meaning get-out-the vote groups won't be able to collect ballots from voters and deliver them to the polls.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/appeals-court-revisit-arizona-ballot-collection-law-43164458

[TryLogic]

1. Well, yeah, I guess it does need to be reviewed.

[brett_jv]

2. Dog, I hate the state I live in ... how f***ing RIDICULOUS is this law, srsly?

What is it meant to accomplish, anyway?

Is the thinking that if GOTV crews are allowed to collect ballots & deliver them to the polls, that they'll 'insert' a bunch of falsified ballots into the stack they're turning in? Is NOT the fact that doing such would already be considered a friggin' FELONY ... not considered to be 'enough' to stop this (imagined) threat to our very democracy itself? Is there something out there that indicates that the US Mail is the ONLY means of legitimately transporting ballots from point A to point B? Couldn't 'cheaters' just mail-in falsified ballots just as easily as they could insert them into the stack (if in fact, that IS 'the concern') transported by GOTV folks?

Cause I gotta say, to ME ... this law just looks like another means of voter suppression ... GOP has probably calculated that the folks who wait until the last minute to mail in their ballot (thus possibly missing the cut-off time for receipt) ... are more likely to be voting for Democrats, so ... let's make it as hard as possible for them to get their votes counted. Call me crazy, but ... that's what I'm assuming.

[Igel]

3. You collect 100 ballots.

You turn in 70 from those who you know will vote. Quick, if my ballot was one of those you trashed how on Earth would I know it? Or if you opened it and changed it, could I tell? No.



Or you just collect those from people who you agree with. It makes the election process partisan.


The vote is sacred. Unless it passes through 3rd party, partisan hands. Then, since maybe it'll help us, we bless those hands and what they do.