On September 7, the Arizona Green Party filed a lawsuit in federal court to require the Secretary of State to remove the names of certain Green Party nominees from the November ballot.  These nominees are people who won the Arizona Green Party primary last month, even though they have no connection with the party leadership or party activists.  The evidence seems clear that various Republicans persuaded them to file as declared write-in candidates in the Green Party primary, on the last day for filing as a declared write-in in the primary.  Because Green Party activists didn’t know about these candidacies, they were unable to counter them with rival candidates for the same office.  Here is the Complaint and here is the motion for a temporary restraining order.

The case is Arizona Green Party v Bennett, cv10-1902.  Because the Secretary of State would like the counties to print their ballots starting September 9, this case is moving very quickly and could conceivably be decided on September 8 or September 9.  UPDATE:  the case has a hearing at 1 p.m. on September 9.  The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell, a Bush Jr. appointee.