ACLU Loses Case Before State Supreme Court in Arizona

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been striking out on many fronts in this election, hoping to create extensions or change voting laws.

The latest blow comes in the state of Arizona, where the state Supreme Court ruled against a case brought by the ACLU on behalf of voters who alleged issued with their mail-in ballots.

The court ruled there was no evidence of disenfranchisement in the case.

Losing Battle

The latest challenge comes amid the problems that Arizona apparently has in counting ballots in a timely matter.

The ACLU wanted the option for voters to be able to fix their ballots if issues were found after the Sunday 5 p.m. deadline.

The state still has thousands of mail-in ballots to be counted and since the deadline will have passed, if their ballots were among those counted after the deadline, if there were problems, they would not have had the opportunity to cure the ballot before the Sunday deadline.

The court order stated, “Thus, the Court is not presented with evidence that any voters will be prevented from curing a defective ballot by today’s 5:00 p.m. deadline. In short, there is no evidence of disenfranchisement before the Court.”

The attorney for the RNC, Harmeet Dhillon, stated, “ACLU lost its Hail Mary last-minute lawsuit to extend the cure period for mail ballots lacking signature matches. Ballot curing is now over in Arizona. Let’s finish the tabulation and wrap this up.”

As of Sunday, Arizona still had some 67,000 early ballots to be counted, with the majority of those ballots coming from Maricopa County.

What I still cannot comprehend is it taking so long to count ballots after an election.

I understand that some states need an extra day to count absentee ballots due to state laws, but a full week after the election and all ballots still not counted seems a bit extreme.

Furthermore, the same states always have the same problems, so how about we put some people in place who can fix this so we do not have the same issues in every major election?