Supreme Court Allows Arizona Ban On Ballot Collection To Take Effect

FILE - This Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 file photo, shows the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court is casting a skeptical eye on voter-approved commissions that draw a state's congressional district boundarie... FILE - This Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 file photo, shows the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court is casting a skeptical eye on voter-approved commissions that draw a state's congressional district boundaries. The justices heard arguments Monday, March 2, 2015 in an appeal from Arizona Republicans who object to the state's independent redistricting commission that voters created to reduce political influence in the process. A decision against the commission also would threaten a similar system in neighboring California and could affect commissions in an additional 11 states. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) MORE LESS
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The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated a new Arizona that makes it a felony to collect early ballots.

Saturday’s order from the nation’s highest court overturns an appeals court decision a day earlier that blocked the new law. The decision is a blow to Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts and groups that had already geared up to help voters deliver their ballots to the polls.

Democrats allege the law hurts minorities’ ability to vote.

The decisions come just days ahead of a presidential election that has Arizona Democrats hoping to win the traditionally Republican state.

Arizona filed an emergency appeal hours after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the law Friday. Justice Anthony Kennedy referred the case to the entire Supreme Court, and it issued a brief order overturning the appeals court.

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  1. Thanks, RWNJSCOTUS…

  2. Yes because helping people to vote is evil.

  3. Damn.

  4. Some details please on what “ballot harvesting” is and why the State of Az would have made it a felony only to see it go to the Appeals Court then the SCOTUS.

  5. Truthfully, this is what I expected. AZ made it clear that family members or friends can legally deliver an absentee voter’s completed ballot but banned anyone or group doing so when it involves numbers. I’d like to know if the state would be open to allowing organizations and groups register with the state to be certified to be ballot deliverers? Did they even discuss this when they formulated the current law? Anyone know?

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