Democratic Arizona Secretary of State (AZSOS) Adrian Fontes started sending proposed draft revisions of parts of the state’s Election Procedures Manual (EPM) to county recorders around the state.
Jennifer Wright, who served as the Election Integrity Unit civil attorney under former Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, where she was extensively involved in reviewing then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ proposed changes to the EPM, said she believes several of the first round of proposed changes would violate the law.
Wright told The Arizona Sun Times that “the EPM is only intended to provide uniform instructions to counties on how to effectuate their statutory responsibilities, not create criminal penalties to voters. See A.R.S. 16-452.”
Fontes (pictured above) proposed adding two new definitions for what constitutes harassment at the polls. The first is “Following voters or poll workers coming to or leaving a voting location, including to or from their vehicles.” The second expands “Directly confronting” and “questioning” poll workers or voters to also include “photographing, or videotaping voters or poll workers in a harassing or intimidating manner, including when the voter or poll worker is coming to or leaving the polling location.”
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