Fontes asks Supreme Court to end lawsuit challenging open primaries ballot initiative

[RandySF]

Secretary of State Adrian Fontes wants the Arizona Supreme Court to pull the plug on ongoing efforts by foes of Proposition 140 to knock it off the ballot.

In new court filings, Fontes said he is not taking a position on whether the measure to create a system of nonpartisan primaries should become law. The initiative, if approved, also would create the option of a ranked-choice voting system for the general election.

“But it is too late to continue litigating whether this initiative qualifies for the ballot given the fact that ballots for more than half the state, and all information relating to this measure for the publicity pamphlet, have already gone to the printer,” Fontes said through his lawyers from the Attorney General's Office.

The pleading comes after the Supreme Court ordered that Proposition 140 be put on the ballot.




https://www.kjzz.org/elections/2024-09-09/fontes-asks-supreme-court-to-end-lawsuit-challenging-open-primaries-ballot-initiative

[dobleremolque]

1. The voters of Arizona need to decide whether we want a state Supreme Court that

can order votes not to be counted. That's one of the options the court is considering while it fiddlefarts over Proposition 140, as the ballot printing deadline comes and goes.

Because if we accept that the Court can order votes not to be counted for a legitimately qualified ballot proposition, the same Court would be emboldened to think that it can order votes not to be counted for a legitimately qualified candidate. That's not a path we want to go down.

When you get to the Judicial Retention part of your ballot, vote NOT TO RETAIN Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick and Arizona Supreme Court Justice Kathryn Hackett King.