On June 12, the Green Party of Pima County, Arizona, filed a lawsuit in state Superior Court in Pima County, to regain its status as a qualified party within the city of Tucson. Tucson is the only city in Arizona with partisan elections for city offices, and is electing a Mayor in November 2019.
Arizona law says that when a previously unqualified party submits a petition, it is then entitled to be recognized for two elections. The Green Party submitted a petition to be recognized in Tucson in 2017, and was on the ballot. But now the city says that the party is not recognized for the 2019 city election.
The Green Party is not on the Arizona ballot for federal or state office at this time. Arizona is a state that lets a party that is not qualified statewide to still be qualified in just part of the state, if it petitions within that portion of the state.
The case has a hearing on July 1 at 11 a.m. in Tucson.
Shock — trust in a STATE court — in a highly partisan case ??? !!!
The forced statewide stuff is more UN-equal stuff.
Office- Election AREA- statewide or state subpart.
Too many BAAAAD lawyers and worse hack judges to count.