On September 26, U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow, a Bush Jr. appointee, enjoined a new Arizona law that seems to make it a felony for anyone to give a voter registration application to someone who is already registered in a state outside Arizona. Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans v Hobbs, 2:22cv-1374.
The law says it is a crime for anyone to give a “mechanism for voting” to someone registered already outside of Arizona. The state tried to defend the law by saying a “mechanism for voting” does not include a voter registration form. The state says a “mechanism for voting” is a ballot. However, the law also banned giving a “ballot” to a voter registered outside Arizona, so it is obvious that a “mechanism for voting” must mean something beyond just a ballot.
This is an example of a legislature passing a poorly-written law. It is a bedrock principle that when legislature pass laws making certain activities crimes, those laws must be specific. Here is the opinion.
One can give a voter registration form to a person registered to vote in another state who moved to Arizona and they are switching their voter registration to their new address in Arizona.
That should be illegal. Those whose father’s father and his father’s father before him was not a voter in the same county have no business voting. This is also true if all those generations and the voter himself were not born and raised in that same county.