The Republican National Committee joined with the state and Yavapai County GOP in a lawsuit filed Friday to stop new voting rules they say will allow election fraud.
The new suit against Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is the second his office is facing by Republicans complaining about the Elections Procedures Manual issued in December. The manual provides detailed guidance for county officials on how to run elections.
State Senate President Warren Petersen and House Speaker Ben Toma sued Fontes on Jan. 31 over five provisions in the manual they say undermine previous Republican “voter confidence measures.”
The latest lawsuit, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, adds nine other complaints.
“The new EPM weakens safeguards against non-citizen voting during a time of unprecedented illegal immigration on Arizona’s southern border, unlawfully limits the ability to challenge early ballots, and violates numerous provisions of Arizona law meant to protect election integrity,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, who’s stepping down from her position this month, said in a statement about the lawsuit.