Reasonable Inference
Unlike Wisconsin, Arizona courts did not issue a definitive pre-certification ruling on the legality of drop box placement and operational standards under CTCL-funded plans. The election was thus administered under unverified private-grant-driven drop box protocols while no judicial or statutory framework governed collection schedules, two-person collection requirements, or surveillance coverage mandates.
Citations
Arizona Auditor General, Arizona Secretary of State, Maricopa County, and Pima County — Use of Private, Nongovernmental Grant Monies and Maricopa County Voting System Procurement, Report No. 22-301, at 12, 16 (Mar. 2022), https://www.azauditor.gov/sites/default/files/2023-11/22-301_Report.pdf.
Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election from Arizona, Wikipedia compilation (documenting all filed Arizona post-election cases), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_U.S._presidential_election_from_Arizona; Arizona Free Enterprise Club v. Fontes, No. CV2024-002760 (Maricopa Cnty. Super. Ct., decided Apr. 25, 2024).
Arizona certified Biden’s victory on November 30, 2020. No court had by that date ruled on the legality of the drop box framework under which the election had been administered. See CNN, Arizona Certifies Biden’s Victory (Nov. 30, 2020), https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/30/politics/joe-biden-arizona-certification.
Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, 2022 WI 64 (Wis. July 8, 2022), https://law.justia.com/cases/wisconsin/supreme-court/2022/2022ap000091.html; Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission (case summary), https://will-law.org/teigen-v-wisconsin-elections-commission/.