Arizona Ballot-Harvesting Ban Is Legal, Supreme Court Rules in High-Stakes Electoral Integrity Case

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Arizonaโ€™s ban on ballot-harvesting and out-of-precinct voting does not violate the federal Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 this morning in a closely watched case with implications for future elections.

The court opinion split neatly along ideological and partisan lines with the 6 conservative justices nominated by Republican presidents voting to uphold the state law and the 3 liberal justices voting to strike it down.

The decision reverses a judgment issued by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and comes the week after the Biden administration filed a lawsuit against Georgia over the stateโ€™s new electoral integrity-promoting law claiming it amounts to so-called voter suppression. The stateโ€™s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, said the U.S. Department of Justiceโ€™s suit was โ€œlegally and constitutionally dead wrong.โ€

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the courtโ€™s opinion in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee (DNC), court file 19-1257, and Arizona Republican Party v. DNC, court file 19-1258, which was published July 1. Mark Brnovich is the Republican attorney general of Arizona. Oral arguments took place telephonically March 2 after the Supreme Court decided Oct. 2, 2020, to hear the consolidated case.

The reach of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 was at issue in the case.

The Supreme Court today concluded that Arizonaโ€™s out-of-precinct policy and the law known as HB 2023 do not violate Section 2 of the VRA. The court also found that HB 2023 was not enacted with a racially discriminatory purpose.

The  9th Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, โ€œmisunderstood and misapplied [Section 2] and โ€ฆ exceeded its authority in rejecting the District Courtโ€™s factual finding on the issue of legislative intent,โ€ Alito wrote in the courtโ€™s opinion.

Section 2 of the law forbids voting practices that result โ€œin a denial or abridgment of the right โ€ฆ to vote on account of race or color [or language-minority status],โ€ and provides that such a result โ€œis establishedโ€ if a jurisdictionโ€™s โ€œpolitical processes โ€ฆ are not equally openโ€ to members of such a group โ€œin that [they] have less opportunity โ€ฆ to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice.โ€

The Biden administrationย sent a letterย to the court Feb. 16 in which it, like the Trump administration before it, acknowledged the challenged Arizona laws were consistent with the federal statute.

BYย MATTHEW VADUM

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