Arizona State Senator John Kavanagh (R-Fountain Hills) has introduced SB 1307, which relaxes the deadline for parties to submit names of presidential elector candidates. Current law requires them to be submitted in June, on the same day that candidates in primaries file. The bill would move the presidential elector deadline to primary day, which is in late August.

In 2016 the Green Party didn’t submit its presidential elector candidates until a few days after the June deadline had passed. The Secretary of State said that, therefore, Jill Stein could not be on the November ballot even though the Green Party was a ballot-qualified party. The Green Party then filed a federal lawsuit, which succeeded. The Secretary of State did not actively fight that lawsuit and said she would ask the legislature for a more rational deadline.