By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services
PHOENIX – Arizona can now enforce a 2022 law despite claims by some that it could inadvertently make felons out of volunteers who register people to vote.
In a new opinion Friday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the injunction issued by a federal judge in Phoenix who had said SB 1260 is so poorly written that anyone reading it would not know what is – and is not – legal. And that, said Judge Murray Snow, made it unconstitutionally too vague to be on the books.
Snow also barred the state from implementing another part of the same law detailing when county election officials are required to cancel a voter’s registration. The judge said it runs afoul of the National Voter Registration Act which requires that the person be notified before being taken off voter rolls.
