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Appeals court throws out lawsuit from Navajo Nation members seeking to ease AZ deadline
Posted on 10/15/20 at 1:02 pm
Posted on 10/15/20 at 1:02 pm
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A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit from six Navajo Nation members seeking to ease Arizona's deadline for mail-in ballots, ruling they lack standing to bring the case.
A three-judge panel ruled unanimously that the reservation residents’ allegations that they would face overwhelming difficulty in getting their ballots delivered by Election Day were overly speculative and that the court would not be able to solve the issue by extending the deadline for them.
"Crucially, the Postmark Deadline cannot be implemented because the mail ballots received and logged by the county recorder do not indicate — and Yazzie provides no way to otherwise discern — whether those ballots were cast by on-reservation Navajo Nation members," the panel said in its 15-page decision.
Darlene Yazzie and five other Nation members sued the Arizona secretary of state in August, arguing that a requirement that mail-in ballots be received by Election Day could effectively disenfranchise the reservation's voters because of its geographical isolation and lack of resources.
"Voting by mail systems rest upon the premise that all citizens have equal mail service, however, hundreds of thousands of rural Americans have non-standard mail service burdened with a range of service limits including irregular service or unreliable service, no residential delivery, excessive distances to post offices or other postal providers with limited hours of operation among other issues," they said in their lawsuit.
The deadline in Arizona to request a mail-in ballot is Oct. 23. The plaintiffs argued that the lack of post offices on the reservation and the quality of its postal service will make it hard for many residents to obtain a ballot, fill it out and get it delivered by Nov. 3.
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Posted on 10/15/20 at 1:04 pm to jatilen
Or, you know, you can just go vote in person you fricking crybabies.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 1:04 pm to jatilen
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and the quality of its postal service
This covers all 50 states.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 1:10 pm to Centinel
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Or, you know, you can just go vote in person you fricking crybabies.
They'd have to lay off the firewater.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 1:11 pm to jatilen
Nobody is too scared to vote in person.
People just want mail in votes to cheat.
People just want mail in votes to cheat.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 1:12 pm to jatilen
Bury My Heart at the Wounded Knee Post Office
Posted on 10/15/20 at 1:15 pm to jatilen
Granted, life on the reservation is rough. I remember driving through a small part of the Navajo rez a decade ago or so, and it was really sad to see.
But do they really not have regular mail service?
Even if they don't have door to door mail service, they have to have PO Boxes or something. If they requested an absentee/mail-in ballot in enough time, there shouldn't be an issue with the delivery, completion, and return of a ballot well within the timeframe set by the state.
But do they really not have regular mail service?
Even if they don't have door to door mail service, they have to have PO Boxes or something. If they requested an absentee/mail-in ballot in enough time, there shouldn't be an issue with the delivery, completion, and return of a ballot well within the timeframe set by the state.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 1:48 pm to jatilen
I’ve been on that reservation, met with their council and their government.
A more corrupt group would be hard to find. The various chapters have a lot of control over their members. If they want to get them to the polls, it’s no problem at all.
A more corrupt group would be hard to find. The various chapters have a lot of control over their members. If they want to get them to the polls, it’s no problem at all.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 2:07 pm to llfshoals
If you have been to the grocery store in the past six months, you can probably go vote.
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