A judge in Arizona has rejected the state attorney general’s request to revamp election rules for the 2022 election cycle, citing timing as the reason for the rejection.
Yavapai County Superior Court Judge John Napper on June 17 denied Republican Attorney General (AG) Mark Brnovich’s request to ask Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, to improve the election procedure manual for the 2022 elections.
“At this point in the game, there is no mechanism for the Court to assist the parties in constructing an EMP which complies with [the law] within the timelines of the statute,” Napper wrote in the ruling, The Associated Press reported. “The Complaint was filed far too late for this to occur without disrupting elections that have already begun.”…