On December 7, a state trial court in Arizona upheld the November 2015 Tucson election returns for city council. See this story. Republican nominees in two districts had argued they should be seated. Tucson has partisan elections, in which nominations are made inside each ward, but then the nominees run citywide. The Ninth Circuit had invalidated that system last month, but the new ruling says despite the Ninth Circuit ruling, that is no reason to invalidate the election. A rehearing is pending in the Ninth Circuit.