Established Fact
The Brennan Center for Justice and All Voting Is Local each published Arizona-specific guides in advance of the 2020 election addressing poll worker qualifications and observer standards. Both guides were publicly available. Accuracy note: neither guide uses the phrase “Big Lie” or expressly instructs exclusion of poll workers based on political viewpoint; both address statutory qualification standards under Arizona law (A.R.S. § 16-531). The characterization that these guides directed partisan exclusion is an inference not supported by the guides’ actual text. Established Fact: the guides were published, distributed, and addressed poll worker and observer qualification standards for the 2020 Arizona election.
Citations
Brennan Center for Justice, “Election Administrator’s Guide to Arizona Election Law” (Aug. 2020): https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/2020-08/ARIZONA-final.pdf. This guide addressed poll worker legal qualification standards and procedural requirements.
All Voting Is Local, “Arizona Voter Protection Guide” (2020): https://allvotingislocal.org/wp-content/uploads/Arizona-Guide-FINAL.pdf. This guide covers voter eligibility standards and poll worker obligations under Arizona law.
Both organizations published Arizona-specific guides addressing poll worker qualification and observer standards in advance of the 2020 election. The Brennan Center guide is available at https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/2020-08/ARIZONA-final.pdf; the All Voting Is Local guide is available at https://allvotingislocal.org/wp-content/uploads/Arizona-Guide-FINAL.pdf. See fn. 10 for accuracy note regarding characterization.
A.R.S. § 16-531 (Arizona poll worker qualification requirements). Note: A.R.S. § 16-531 does not itself authorize exclusion based on political viewpoint; it sets general qualification standards (age, residency, literacy) and partisan balance requirements for bipartisan boards.
U.S. Const. amend. XIV (equal protection)
The guides were distributed publicly by both organizations prior to the election. The Established Fact classification reflects that the guides were published and disseminated; the description’s characterization of their purpose is subject to the accuracy note at fn. 10.