By Kiera Riley | Arizona Capitol Times
After litigious 2020 and 2022 elections, another round of legal challenges in 2024 are all but assumed by the judiciary, election attorneys and professionals, with contests set to enter a legal landscape shaped by past cycles and tinged with unanswered questions.
Election contests have offered little in the way of binding case law, but relevant rulings from the Arizona Supreme Court and Arizona Court of Appeals could still prove instructive in 2024. All the while, the courts left requests for clarification on election contests discovery constraints on the table, which stand to resurface in 2024.
Though current state law, past litigation and subsequent decisions give some indications how election contests may play out post-Election Day, attorney Andrew Gould said the impact of the 2020 and 2022 cycles will only truly become clear after sifting through 2024.