Deliberate Relaxation of Election Security Via Court-Ordered Modification of Signature Verification – Unauthorized Pre-Election Administrative Change (AZ)

Disputed fact as to coordinated intent, but Arizona Democratic Party v. Hobbs, No. 2:20-cv-01143 (D. Ariz. 2020), was a federal court action in which a district court entered an injunction extending cure deadlines for unsigned absentee ballots. The Ninth Circuit stayed the injunction on October 6, 2020, before it took effect. Whether the litigation reflected coordinated intent to weaken Arizona’s election security procedures is a disputed inference; the injunction’s stay renders its operational effect on the 2020 election unestablished.