Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via Arizona Daily Star
Cities that maintain their own election dates despite lower turnout are violating state law, Attorney General Mark Brnovich has concluded.
And now his office plans to sue Tucson at the state Supreme Court to force it to repeal its odd-year election ordinance.
The Arizona Constitution gives the state’s 19 charter cities the right to regulate matters of “purely local concern,” Linley Wilson, the state’s deputy solicitor general, acknowledged in a 20-page analysis Friday.
Wilson, who works for Brnovich, noted that the state’s high court has, in fact, overruled prior efforts to force Tucson to conform its election schedule to even-numbered years.
