Arizona Revised Statutes Title 16 - Elections And Electors
Chapter 1 QUALIFICATION AND REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS
Article 1 Qualifications for Registration
Article 1.1 Driver's License Voter Registration
- § 16-111 Definitions
For the purposes of this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Applicant" means a person who applies for a driver's license. 2....
- § 16-112 Driver License Voter Registration
A. Every person who is applying for a driver license or renewal and who is otherwise qualified to register to vote shall, at the...
Article 2 Qualifications for Voting
Article 3 Registration Officers and Procedures
Article 4 Forms
Article 5 Registration Rolls
- § 16-161 Official Record Of Registration
When the registration form is filled out, signed by the elector and received by the county recorder, it shall constitute an official public record...
- § 16-162 Retention Of Registration Forms And Record Of Cancellation
The county recorder shall provide a means of retaining registration forms and records of cancellation of registration. The records shall be retained as prescribed...
- § 16-163 Assignment Of Registrations To General County Register; Exception; Notification To Elector; Electronic Storage Of Registration Forms
A. The county recorder, on receipt of a registration in proper form, shall assign the registration record to its proper precinct and alphabetical arrangement...
- § 16-164 Change Of Registration On New Registration Form Effecting Change Of Precinct, Party, Address Or Name
A. On receipt of a new registration form that effects a change of precinct, political party, address or name, the county recorder shall indicate...
- § 16-165 Causes For Cancellation
A. The county recorder shall cancel a registration: 1. At the request of the person registered. 2. When the county recorder knows of the...
- § 16-166 Verification Of Registration
(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. Except for the mailing of sample ballots, a county recorder who mails an item to any elector shall...
- § 16-168 Precinct Registers; Date Of Preparation; Contents; Copies; Reports; Statewide Database; Violation; Classification
A. By the tenth day preceding the primary and general elections the county recorder shall prepare from the original registration forms or from electronic...
- § 16-169 Disposition And Use Of Precinct Registers; Signature Roster; Form
A. Upon completion of the precinct registers, the county recorder shall certify to their completeness and correctness and shall transmit them to the election...
- § 16-170 Transmittal Of Signature Roster To County Recorder; Comparison Of Names By Recorder
Upon return of the signature rosters to the board of supervisors after the election, the board shall immediately return them to the county recorder,...
- § 16-171 Preservation Of Signature Rosters As Permanent Records
The signature roster of a precinct register shall be retained permanently, and transfer shall be pursuant to sections 41-151.15 and 41-151.19. Signature rosters may...
- § 16-172 Use Of County Registration Rolls By Political Subdivisions
A. Any political subdivision of this state conducting an election pursuant to the laws of this state, which lies within a county, may use...
- § 16-173 County Recorder To File Data Processing System Or Program
In each county in which an electronic data processing system or program is used for voter registration, the county recorder shall prepare a detailed...
Article 6 Penal Provisions
Chapter 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1 Applicability
- § 16-191 Applicability
A. Except as provided by subsection B and except where different election procedures or provisions are set forth by statute, the provisions of this...
- § 16-192 Use Of State, Special Taxing District Resources To Influence Elections; Prohibition; Civil Penalties; Definitions
A. Notwithstanding any other law, this state and special taxing districts and any public agency, department, board, commission, committee, council or authority shall not...
- § 16-193 Active Registered Voters; Applicability
The terms " registered voters" , " persons who are registered to vote" , " registered electors" and " voters registered" as used in...
Chapter 2 ELECTION DATES
Article 1 Primary Election
Article 2 General Election
Article 3 Other Elections; Special Provisions Relating to Election of Certain Officers
Article 4 Presidential Preference Election
Chapter 3 NOMINATING PROCEDURES
Article 1 Party Nomination Requirements
Article 2 Filing and Forms
Article 3 Signature Requirements
Article 4 Judicial Offices
Article 5 Nomination Other Than by Primary
Article 6 Challenge of Nomination Petitions
Chapter 4 CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS
Article 1 General Provisions
- § 16-400 Definition Of Mark
For the purposes of this chapter, " mark" means a character or symbol which is distinguishable and noticeable to a reasonable person but which...
- § 16-401 Applicability Of General Election Law To Primary Elections
A. A primary election shall be held, the voters shall vote therein, the method of voting shall be followed, the votes shall be counted...
- § 16-402 Absence From Employment For Purpose Of Voting; Application Therefor; Violation; Classification
A. A person entitled to vote at a primary or general election held within this state may, on the day of election, absent himself...
- § 16-403 City Or Town Primaries; Duties Of Officers
In city or town primary elections, the duties devolving upon the secretary of state in other elections shall devolve upon the mayor or similar...
- § 16-404 Preparation Of Polling Place; Voting Booths; Ballot Boxes For Paper Ballots
Each polling place shall be provided by the board of supervisors with a sufficient number of voting booths on which voters may conveniently mark...
- § 16-405 Preparation For Elections
The board of supervisors or other authority in charge of elections shall provide voting or marking devices, voting booths, ballots, early ballots as prescribed...
- § 16-406 Public Display Of Voting Equipment
The board of supervisors or other authority in charge of elections shall place voting equipment on public display at such times and places as...
- § 16-407 Election Officers; Qualifications; Certificates; Certification Programs; Plan; Exemption; Election Training Fund
A. Except as provided in subsection E, no person may perform the duties or exercise the authority of an election officer or of the...
- § 16-407.01 Election Officer Education, Training And Certification Advisory Committee
A. An election officer education, training and certification advisory committee is established consisting of the following members: 1. An assistant attorney general who is...
- § 16-407.02 Elections Training Classes; Statement; Water; Registration Form
Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation, from and after January 1, 2011 the secretary of state's office may provide bottled water at any...
- § 16-408 Cost Of Special District Elections; Bond
A. The cost of all special district elections provided in this title, including the preparation of ballots and signature comparison, shall be charged against...
- § 16-409 Certain Cities, Towns And School Districts; Mail Ballot Elections; Report
A. Notwithstanding section 16-558, a city, town or school district may conduct a mail ballot election. A mail ballot election shall be conducted as...
- § 16-410 Cancellation Of Certain Elections; Appointment To Office; Filling Vacancies
A. Notwithstanding any other law, in any election that is to be held pursuant to title 15, title 48 or section 16-822, if the...
Article 2 Election Precincts and Polling Places
Article 3 Voting Equipment; Lever
- § 16-421 Adoption Of Voting Machines; Experimental Use
A. The governing body of a county, city or town may adopt for use at elections any voting machine meeting with the requirements of...
- § 16-422 Definitions; Applicability Of General Laws
A. In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Ballot" , in its relation to a voting machine, means that portion of...
- § 16-423 Authorization For Use At All Elections
At all state, county, city or town elections and primary elections, ballots or votes may be cast, registered, recorded and counted by voting machines,...
- § 16-424 Specifications Of Voting Machine
A. A voting machine shall be constructed to provide facilities for voting for candidates at both primary and general elections. B. A voting machine...
- § 16-425 Preparation Of Machines Prior To Election
A. The board of supervisors or other authority in charge of elections where voting machines are to be used shall: 1. Cause the proper...
- § 16-426 Equipment To Be Provided With Machine
Every voting machine shall be furnished with a light sufficient to enable the voters to read the ballot labels and enable the election officers...
- § 16-427 Instruction Of Voters Prior To Election As To Use Of Machine
A. The board of supervisors or other authority in charge of elections where voting machines are used shall provide adequate facilities for instruction of...
- § 16-428 Machine To Remain Sealed After Election
A. The voting machine shall remain locked against voting for the period of fifteen days and as much longer as may be necessary or...
- § 16-429 Custody Of Voting Machines And Keys
A. The local authorities adopting the machines shall have the custody when not in use at an election and shall preserve and keep them...
- § 16-430 Number Of Voting Machines In A Precinct
Where voting machines are used, precincts shall be equipped by the board of supervisors to provide a minimum of two voting machines for any...
Article 4 Voting Equipment; Electromechanical
- § 16-441 Effective Date Of Article; Approval Of Counting Equipment
Provisions of this article shall become effective and operative when electronic or electromechanical vote recording and ballot counting equipment has been satisfactorily tested and...
- § 16-442 Committee Approval; Adoption Of Vote Tabulating Equipment; Experimental Use; Emergency
A. The secretary of state shall appoint a committee of three persons, to consist of a member of the engineering college at one of...
- § 16-442.01 Accessible Voting Technology; Recommendations; Certification; Applicability
A. On completion of the certification process pursuant to this section and section 16-442, the secretary of state shall require that voting systems that...
- § 16-443 Authorization Of Use At All Elections
At all state, county, city or town elections, agricultural improvement district elections and primary elections, ballots or votes may be cast, recorded and counted...
- § 16-444 Definitions; Applicability Of General Laws
A. In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Ballot" means a paper ballot on which votes are recorded, or alternatively may...
- § 16-445 Filing Of Computer Election Programs With Secretary Of State
A. For any state, county, school district, special district, city or town election, including primary elections, utilizing vote tabulating devices as provided in this...
- § 16-446 Specifications Of Electronic Voting System
A. An electronic voting system consisting of a voting or marking device in combination with vote tabulating equipment shall provide facilities for voting for...
- § 16-447 Voting Devices; Inspection; Specifications And Number Of Booths
A. Beginning on January 1, 2006, the board of supervisors shall provide at each polling place at least one device that complies with the...
- § 16-448 Write-In Votes; Marking With Rubber Stamp Or Other Devices; Instructions
A. Whenever ballots are to be counted by electronic data processing equipment, all write-in votes for candidates, to be counted, shall be marked by...
- § 16-449 Required Test Of Equipment And Programs; Notice; Procedures Manual
A. Within the period of time before the election day prescribed by the secretary of state in the instructions and procedures manual adopted pursuant...
- § 16-450 Location And Acquisition Of Vote Tabulating Devices
The vote tabulating device may be located at any place within the state approved by the board of supervisors of the county or the...
- § 16-451 Cost; Means Of Financing
The board of supervisors may provide for the payment of the cost of vote tabulating equipment in such manner and by such method as...
- § 16-452 Rules; Instructions And Procedures Manual; Approval Of Manual; Field Check And Review Of Systems; Violation; Classification
A. After consultation with each county board of supervisors or other officer in charge of elections, the secretary of state shall prescribe rules to...
Article 5 Ballots and Supplies; Primary
- § 16-461 Sample Primary Election Ballots; Submission To Party Chairmen For Examination; Preparation, Printing And Distribution Of Ballot
A. At least forty-five days before a primary election, the officer in charge of that election shall: 1. Prepare a proof of a sample...
- § 16-462 Form Of Paper Ballot
The ballots for a primary election shall be printed with a different color designation for each political party that is included on the ballot....
- § 16-463 Form Of Ballots; Lever Machines
A. Ballots prepared for use in a primary election shall be printed on material of a different color for each political party represented. B....
- § 16-464 Rotation Of Names On Ballots
A. When there are two or more candidates for a nomination, except in the case of precinct committeemen, the names of all candidates for...
- § 16-465 Arrangement Of Candidates' Names At Primary Election
A. When there are two or more candidates of the same political party on the ballot, the names of such candidates, except in the...
- § 16-466 Ballots, Ballot Labels And Ballot Screens; Electromechanical
A. Ballots, ballot labels and ballot screens, as far as practicable, shall be in the same order of arrangement as provided for paper ballots,...
- § 16-467 Method Of Voting On Ballot
A. At primary elections there shall be provided a separate ballot for each party entitled to participate in the primary. B. Each party ballot...
- § 16-468 Form Of Ballot; Optical Scanning System; Sample Ballots
For any ballots intended for use in an optical scanning system, the following apply: 1. As nearly as is practicable, ballots shall have material...
Article 6 Ballots and Supplies; General
- § 16-501 Compliance With Primary Election Law As Prerequisite To Printing Name On Ballot
Except as provided in chapter 3, article 5 of this title, no person shall have his name printed on the official ballot as a...
- § 16-502 Form And Contents Of Ballot
A. Ballots shall be printed with black ink on white paper of sufficient thickness to prevent the printing thereon from being discernible from the...
- § 16-503 Duty To Prepare And Provide Ballots; Cost Of Printing Ballots And Instruction Cards As Public Expense
A. The board of supervisors, and in city and town elections, the city or town clerk, shall prepare and provide ballots containing the names...
- § 16-504 Form Of Ballots; Lever Machines
Ballots for voting machines shall be printed in black ink and, for use in a general election, on clear, white material of such size...
- § 16-505 Procedure For Excessive Size Of Ballot
Where voting machines are used and the number of partisan offices and propositions or the number of political parties makes the ballot too large...
- § 16-506 Ballot And Ballot Labels; Electromechanical
A. In all elections the ballots shall provide a means whereby each elector may vote for the candidates of his choice. B. Immediately below...
- § 16-507 Presentation Of Presidential Candidates On Ballot
A. When presidential electors are to be voted for, the presidential and vice-presidential candidates therefor of each party shall be grouped and printed together,...
- § 16-508 Number Of Ballots Furnished Each Polling Place
There shall be furnished for each precinct in which an election is to be held a number of early ballots and printed ballots exceeding...
- § 16-509 Delivery Of Ballots To Election Officers
The board of supervisors, city or town clerk or governing body of a special district shall deliver, by mail or other reliable method, to...
- § 16-510 Sample Ballots; Preparation And Distribution
A. Before printing the sample ballots for the general election the board of supervisors shall send to each candidate whose name did not appear...
- § 16-511 Duty Of Board Of Supervisors To Furnish Election Supplies To Precinct Officers
A. If paper signature rosters are used in a polling place, the necessary printed blanks for poll lists, tally lists, lists of voters, ballots,...
- § 16-512 Displaying United States Flag At Polls
The board of supervisors shall provide for the display of the flag of the United States in or near every polling place on election...
- § 16-513 Instructions For Voters And Election Officers
The board of supervisors shall prepare instructions for the guidance of voters and election officers at the election, according to which the election shall...
- § 16-513.01 Right To Vote A Provisional Ballot; Notice
The board of supervisors or other officer in charge of elections shall furnish to the inspector in each election precinct at least two "...
- § 16-514 Notice To Voters; Form
The board of supervisors shall furnish, to be placed in each voting booth, unless the information is printed on the sample ballot, a card...
- § 16-515 "Seventy‑five Foot Limit" Notices; Posting; Violation; Classification
A. Except as prescribed in this section and section 16-580, a person shall not be allowed to remain inside the seventy-five foot limit while...
- § 16-516 Form Of Poll Lists
A. The following form of poll lists shall be kept by boards and clerks of election: " Poll lists. Of the election held in...
- § 16-517 Form Of Tally List
The tally list shall be in the following form: We hereby certify the following to be a true tally of the votes for the...
Article 7 Election Boards and Tally Boards
Article 8 Early Voting
- § 16-541 Early Voting
A. Any election called pursuant to the laws of this state shall provide for early voting. Any qualified elector may vote by early ballot....
- § 16-542 Request For Ballot; Civil Penalties; Violation; Classification
A. Within ninety-three days before any election called pursuant to the laws of this state, an elector may make a verbal or signed request...
- § 16-543 Application For Ballot; United States Service; Emergency Procedures
A. Any absent uniformed services voter or overseas voter as defined in the uniformed and overseas citizens absentee voting act of 1986 (P.L. 99-410;...
- § 16-543.02 Federal Write‑in Early Ballots; Procedure; Registration Form
A. An overseas voter as defined in the uniformed and overseas citizens absentee voting act of 1986 (P.L. 99-410; 42 United States Code section...
- § 16-544 Permanent Early Voting List; Civil Penalty; Violation; Classification
A. Any voter may request to be included on a permanent list of voters to receive an early ballot for any election for which...
- § 16-545 Early Ballot
A. The early ballot shall be one prepared for use in the precinct in which the applicant resides and, if a partisan primary election,...
- § 16-546 Early Votes
A. Early votes may be cast on paper ballots or ballot cards, except that any county, city or town in which electronic machines are...
- § 16-547 Ballot Affidavit; Form
A. The early ballot shall be accompanied by an envelope bearing on the front the name, official title and post office address of the...
- § 16-548 Preparation And Transmission Of Ballot
A. The early voter shall make and sign the affidavit and shall then mark his ballot in such a manner that his vote cannot...
- § 16-549 Special Election Boards; Voting Procedure For Ill Electors Or Electors With Disabilities; Expenses
A. The county recorder or other officer in charge of elections, for the purpose of making it possible for qualified electors who are ill...
- § 16-550 Receipt Of Voter's Ballot
A. Upon receipt of the envelope containing the early ballot and the completed affidavit, the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections...
- § 16-551 Early Election Board; Violation; Classification
A. The board of supervisors or the governing body of the political subdivision shall appoint one or more early election boards to serve at...
- § 16-552 Early Ballots; Processing; Challenges
A. In a jurisdiction that uses punch card ballots, the early election board, immediately upon receipt of the early ballots, shall, as provided by...
Article 8.1 Optional Special District Mail Ballot Elections
Article 9 Polling Place Procedures
- § 16-561 Examination Of Machines On Election Day
A. The keys to the voting machine shall be delivered to the judges at least one-half hour before the time set for opening the...
- § 16-562 Preparation And Arrangement Of Polling Place With Voting Booths And Ballot Boxes
A. The arrangement of the polling place shall be such that neither the ballot boxes nor the voting booths are hidden from the view...
- § 16-563 Posting Sample Ballots, Instruction Cards And Notice To Voters Before Opening Polls
Before opening the polls the inspector of election shall direct the following postings: 1. One of the sample ballots provided for in section 16-510,...
- § 16-564 Opening, Exhibiting And Locking Ballot Box Before Receipt Of Ballots; Removal And Opening Of Box
A. Before receiving any ballots the election board, in the presence of the persons assembled at the polling place, shall open, exhibit and lock...
- § 16-565 Hours Polls Opened And Closed; Proclamation Of Opening And Closing Polls
A. For any election called pursuant to the laws of this state, the polls shall be opened in every precinct at 6:00 a.m. on...
- § 16-566 Opening And Closing Of Polling Place; Unused Ballots
A. At least thirty minutes before the opening of the polls the precinct election officers shall arrive at the polling place and set up...
- § 16-570 Conduct Of Election; Duties Of Officers; Placing Machines
A. One election official shall attend the voting machine, and the other officers shall attend the poll books and perform the duties of election...
- § 16-571 Poll Lists To Be Kept By Election Clerk; Posting
A. In precincts in which electronic poll book systems are not used, at least one election board clerk shall keep a list in duplicate...
- § 16-572 Delivery And Custody Of Ballots At Polling Place
A. On opening the polls, the inspector shall produce the sealed package of official ballots and publicly open it and deliver one book or...
- § 16-573 Substitution Of Ballots When Official Ballots Not Available
If the official ballots at an election precinct at which a voting machine is to be used are not delivered at the time required,...
- § 16-574 Repair Or Substitution Of Machines; Use Of Paper Ballots
A. If a voting machine being used at an election becomes out of order during the election, it shall be repaired if possible or...
- § 16-578 Instruction And Assistance To Voters
A. For instruction of voters there shall be, so far as practicable in each polling place, an operating model of a voting device. B....
- § 16-579 Procedure For Obtaining Ballot By Elector
(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. Every qualified elector, before receiving a ballot, shall announce the elector's name and place of residence in a...
- § 16-580 Manner Of Voting; Assistance For Certain Electors
A. Except as prescribed by subsection G of this section, only one person per voting booth shall be permitted at any one time to...
- § 16-581 Elderly Persons; Persons With Disabilities; Inaccessible Polling Places; Definitions
A. If the board of supervisors determines that a polling place is inaccessible to elderly persons or persons with disabilities, it shall provide for...
- § 16-583 Voter Not On Precinct Register; Inactive Voter List; Procedure
A. On or before election day, the county recorder shall provide to each precinct the names of electors on the inactive voter list. If...
- § 16-584 Qualified Elector Not On Precinct Register; Recorder's Certificate; Verified Ballot; Procedure
A. A qualified elector whose name is not on the precinct register and who presents a certificate from the county recorder showing that the...
- § 16-585 Spoiled Ballots; Disposition
If a voter spoils a ballot or ballot card and obtains another, the inspector and one of the judges shall write on the back...
- § 16-590 Appointment Of Challengers And Party Representatives
A. The county chairman of each party may, for each precinct, by written appointment addressed to the election board, designate a party agent or...
- § 16-591 Grounds For Challenging An Elector
Any qualified elector of the county may orally challenge a person offering to vote as not qualified under section 16-121.01 or on the ground...
- § 16-592 Proceedings On Challenge; Disposition Of Ballot
A. Upon challenge being made, if the person challenged appears to be registered, the person shall take and subscribe to the oath prescribed in...
- § 16-593 Rules Determining Residence Of Voter Upon Challenge; Reading Of Rules Upon Request
A. The election board, in determining the place of residence of a person, shall be governed by the following rules, so far as applicable:...
- § 16-594 List Of Challenges, Grounds And Rulings
The board shall require one of the clerks to keep a list of the names of all persons challenged, the grounds of the challenge...
Article 10 Tally and Returns
- § 16-601 Tally Of Vote
As soon as the polls are closed and the last ballot has been deposited in the ballot box, the election board or the tally...
- § 16-602 Removal Of Ballots From Ballot Boxes; Disposition Of Ballots Folded Together Or Excessive Ballots; Designated Margin; Hand Counts; Vote Count Verification Committee
A. For any primary, special or general election in which the votes are cast on an electronic voting machine or tabulator, the election judge...
- § 16-603 Inspection Of Ballots By Party Representative
A mutually agreed upon number of representatives and alternates of each political party represented on the ballot by a party designation and column, appointed...
- § 16-604 Count Of Votes Cast; Tally List
A. The election board or the tally board shall, after complying with section 16-602, count the number of votes cast for each person voted...
- § 16-605 Disposition Of Paper Ballots After Count; Marking Rejected Ballots
A. All paper ballots, as soon as read, or rejected for illegality, shall be strung, those allowed on one string and those rejected on...
- § 16-606 Tally And Return Of Votes; Lever Voting Machine
A. As soon as the polls of the election are closed, the judges and inspectors shall immediately lock and seal the voting machine against...
- § 16-607 Statements Of Tally
A. In each election precinct where voting machines are used, statements of tally shall be printed to conform with the type of voting machine...
- § 16-608 Delivery Of Ballots; Electronic Voting System
A. After the close of the polls and after compliance with section 16-602 the members of the election board shall prepare a report in...
- § 16-609 Questioned Legality Of Ballots; Procedure
A. No ballots but those provided in accordance with the provisions of law shall be counted. B. When a question arises as to the...
- § 16-610 Uncertainty Of Voter's Choice As Cause For Rejection
If on any ballot the names of more persons are designated for the same office than are to be chosen, or if for any...
- § 16-611 Certain Defects Invalidating Vote For Particular Office
If the voter marks more names than there are persons to be elected to an office, or if from the ballot it is impossible...
- § 16-612 Determination Of Write‑in Choice Of Voter
A. When the printed name of a candidate is followed by the name of another person written on the ballot by the voter in...
- § 16-614 Signing Of Tally Lists After Completion Of Tally
When the votes are counted and the ballots sealed in the envelope, as required by law, the tally lists shall be signed by the...
- § 16-615 Delivery Of Returns
A. Before it adjourns, the election board or tally board shall enclose and seal in a strong envelope provided for that purpose one of...
- § 16-616 Preparation And Disposition Of Unofficial Returns
One of the poll lists and one of the tally lists used at the election shall be withheld by the election board from the...
- § 16-617 Transmittal Of Signature Roster And Precinct Registers To Board Of Supervisors After Election
The inspector of the election board shall, at the close of the election, return the signature roster and copies of the precinct registers along...
- § 16-618 Preparation, Disposition And Posting Of Abstract Of Vote; Exception To Posting
At the time that the election board or tally board prepares the official election returns, it shall also prepare and certify in duplicate upon...
- § 16-619 Preparation, Delivery And Publication Of Condensed Abstract Of Vote
The election board or tally board shall immediately upon completion of the count also prepare a condensed abstract showing the number of ballots cast,...
- § 16-620 Tabulation And Publication Of Condensed Abstracts; Costs Of Transmittal
A. When the condensed abstract is received by the officer in charge of the election, it shall be at once transcribed upon a tabulation...
- § 16-621 Proceedings At The Counting Center
A. All proceedings at the counting center shall be under the direction of the board of supervisors or other officer in charge of elections...
- § 16-622 Official Canvass; Unofficial Results
A. At any time following the close of the polls, except as provided in section 16-551, subsection C, unofficial returns may be released during...
- § 16-623 Copy Of Abstract Of Vote Of Certain Counties Filed With Secretary Of State
In those counties lying within a legislative district or a congressional district made up of areas in more than one county, the board of...
- § 16-624 Disposition Of Official Returns And Ballots
A. After the canvass has been completed, the officer in charge of elections shall deposit the package or envelope containing the ballots in a...
Article 11 Official Canvass
- § 16-641 Retally Of Vote; Lever Voting Machine
A. When it appears that there is a discrepancy in the election returns in an election precinct, the board of supervisors or other authority...
- § 16-642 Canvass Of Election; Postponements
A. The governing body holding an election shall meet and canvass the election not less than six days nor more than twenty days following...
- § 16-643 Method Of Canvass
The canvass of the election returns shall be made in public by opening the returns, other than the ballots, and determining the vote of...
- § 16-644 Effect Of Want Of Form In Precinct Returns
No list, tally, certificates or endorsement returned from any precinct shall be set aside or rejected for want of form, or for not being...
- § 16-645 Canvass And Return Of Precinct Vote; Declaring Nominee Of Party; Certificate Of Nomination; Write‑in Candidates
A. When the board of supervisors, or the governing body of a city or town, has completed its canvass of precinct returns, the person...
- § 16-646 Statement, Contents And Mailing Of Official Canvass
A. When the result of the canvass is determined, a statement, known and designated as the official canvass, shall be entered on the official...
- § 16-647 Declaration Of Election To Office; Delivery Of Certificate Of Election
The board of supervisors shall declare elected the person receiving the highest number of votes cast for each office to be filled by the...
- § 16-648 Canvass For State Offices, Amendments And Measures; Postponement
A. On the fourth Monday following a general election, the secretary of state, in the presence of the governor and the attorney general, shall...
- § 16-649 Determination Of Tie Vote; Notice To Candidates; Exception
A. If two or more candidates receive an equal number of votes for the same office, and a higher number than any other candidate,...
- § 16-650 Declaration Of Election To Office; Delivery Of Certificate Of Election
The secretary of state shall declare elected the person receiving the highest number of votes cast for each office for which the nominees filed...
- § 16-651 Proclamation By Governor On Amendments And Initiated And Referred Measures
Upon completion of the canvass by the secretary of state, the governor shall forthwith issue a proclamation, proclaiming the whole number of votes cast...
Article 12 Recounts
Article 13 Contest of Elections
- § 16-671 Contest Of Primary Elections
Contests arising out of primary elections shall be brought and determined in the same manner, as nearly as possible, as provided by law for...
- § 16-672 Contest Of State Election; Grounds; Venue
A. Any elector of the state may contest the election of any person declared elected to a state office, or declared nominated to a...
- § 16-673 Statement Of Contest; Verification; Filing
A. The elector contesting a state election shall, within five days after completion of the canvass of the election and declaration of the result...
- § 16-674 Contest Of County Or Other Election
A. An elector of a county, city, town or a political subdivision of such county, city or town, may contest the right of a...
- § 16-675 Summons; Form; Answer
A. Upon filing of the statement of contest, the clerk of the superior court shall issue a summons to be served on the contestee...
- § 16-676 Time For Hearing Contest; Continuance; Findings Of The Court; Judgment
A. In any contest brought under the provisions of section 16-672 or 16-674, upon the filing of the answer, or if no answer is...
- § 16-677 Inspection Of Ballots Before Trial; Petition; Bond; Appointment Of Inspectors
A. After the statement of contest has been filed and the action is at issue, either party may have the ballots inspected before preparing...
- § 16-678 Inapplicability Of Article To Contests Of Election Of Legislators
Nothing in this article shall be deemed to affect in any manner procedures relating to contests of elections of members of the legislature.
Article 14 Ratification of Amendments to United States Constitution by Convention
Chapter 5 POLITICAL PARTIES
Article 1 Representation on Ballot
Article 2 Party Organization and Government
- § 16-821 County Committee; Vacancy In Office Of Precinct Committeeman
A. At the primary election the members of a political party entitled to representation pursuant to section 16-804 residing in each precinct shall choose...
- § 16-822 Precinct Committeemen; Eligibility; Vacancy; Duties
A. Any member of a recognized political party who is a registered voter in the precinct is eligible to seek the office of precinct...
- § 16-823 Legislative District Committee; Organization; Boundary Change; Reorganization
A. A political party entitled, pursuant to section 16-801 or 16-804, to representation on the ballot may establish a district party committee for any...
- § 16-824 Meeting, Organization And Officers Of County Committee
A. The county committee shall meet for the purpose of organizing no earlier than ten days after the last organizing meeting of the legislative...
- § 16-825 State Committee
The state committee of each party shall consist, in addition to the chairman of the several county committees, of one member of the county...
- § 16-825.01 State Committee; Vacancy; Filling Of Vacancy
A. In counties with populations of less than five hundred thousand persons, a vacancy shall exist in the state committee when a member moves...
- § 16-826 Meeting, Organization And Officers Of State Committee
A. The state committee shall meet no earlier than ten days after the last county meeting of the party and in any event no...
- § 16-827 Executive Committee Of State Committee
The executive committee of the state committee shall consist of the elected officers of the state committee, the national committeeman and committeewoman, the county...
- § 16-828 Proxies
A. A political party may choose, through its bylaws, to allow the use of proxies at its meetings, in which event the following shall...
Chapter 6 CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENSES
Article 1 General Provisions
- § 16-901 Definitions
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Agent" means, with respect to any person other than a candidate, any person who...
- § 16-901.01 Limitations On Certain Unreported Expenditures And Contributions
(Caution: 1998 Prop 105 applies) A. For the purposes of this chapter, " expressly advocates" means: 1. Conveying a communication containing a phrase such...
- § 16-902 Organization Of Political Committees
A. Each political committee shall have a chairman and treasurer. The position of chairman and treasurer of a single political committee may not be...
- § 16-902.01 Registration Of Political Committees; Contents; Amendment
A. Except for a political committee as defined in section 16-901, paragraph 20, subdivision (f), each political committee that intends to accept contributions or...
- § 16-902.02 Out‑of‑state Political Committees; Registration; Initial Reporting
A political committee that files a statement of organization in this state as prescribed by section 16-902.01, that is registered in another state or...
- § 16-903 Candidate's Campaign Committees; Exploratory Committees; Designation; Candidate As Agent; Civil Penalty
A. Each candidate who intends to receive contributions or make expenditures of more than five hundred dollars in connection with a campaign for office...
- § 16-904 Treasurer; Duties; Records; Civil Penalty
A. No expenditure may be made for or on behalf of a political committee without the authorization of the treasurer or the treasurer's designated...
- § 16-905 Contribution Limitations; Civil Penalty; Complaint; Reductions
A. For an election other than for a statewide office, a contributor shall not give and an exploratory committee, a candidate or a candidate's...
- § 16-906 Loans; Repayments; Guarantors
A. A loan to a political committee or to a candidate made for the purpose of influencing an election that exceeds the lender's contribution...
- § 16-907 Prohibited Contributions; Standing Political Committees; Classification
A. Any person who makes a contribution in the name of another person or who knowingly permits his name to be used to effect...
- § 16-911 Independent Expenditures; Election Officer Analysis; Coordination
A. In evaluating whether an expenditure is an independent expenditure as defined in section 16-901, an election official shall use the following as evidence...
- § 16-912 Candidates And Independent Expenditures; Campaign Literature And Advertisement Sponsors; Identification; Civil Penalty
A. A political committee that makes an expenditure for campaign literature or advertisements that expressly advocate the election or defeat of any candidate or...
- § 16-912.01 Ballot Measure Committees; Campaign Literature And Advertising Funding; Identification; Disclosure; Civil Penalty; Definition
A. A political committee that makes an expenditure in connection with any literature or advertisement to support or oppose a ballot proposition shall disclose...
- § 16-913 Campaign Finance Reports; Reporting Of Receipts And Disbursements; Exemptions; Civil Penalty
A. Except as provided in subsection K of this section, each political committee shall file campaign finance reports in the format prescribed by the...
- § 16-913.01 Additional Reporting By Candidate Campaign Committees; Single Contribution; Civil Penalty
A. In addition to any other filings required by law, a candidate or a candidate's campaign committee shall give notice to the filing officer...
- § 16-914 Termination Statement
A. Except as prescribed by subsection C of this section and section 16-904, subsection F, a political committee may terminate only when the committee...
- § 16-914.01 Reporting Of Contributions By Committees Acting On Ballot Measures; Civil Penalty; Definition
A. In addition to the requirements relating to election contributions prescribed in section 16-913, a committee acting in support of or opposition to the...
- § 16-914.02 Reporting Independent Expenditures Of Corporations, Limited Liability Companies And Labor Organizations; Statement; Disclaimer And Disclosure; Civil Action; Civil Penalty; Violation; Classification; Definitions
A. Any corporation, limited liability company or labor organization that makes cumulative independent expenditures in an attempt to influence the outcome of a candidate...
- § 16-915 Contents Of Campaign Finance Reports
A. Each campaign finance report required by section 16-913 shall set forth all of the following: 1. The amount of cash on hand at...
- § 16-915.01 Disposal Of Surplus Monies; Transfer Of Debt
A. A political committee shall dispose of surplus monies only as follows: 1. Retain surplus monies for use in a subsequent election, which includes...
- § 16-916 Filing Statements Of Contributions And Expenditures; Public Inspection
A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, the statements, designations and reports required to be filed pursuant to this article shall...
- § 16-916.01 Electronic Filing; Statements Of Contributions And Expenditures
A. Statements, designations and reports that are filed pursuant to this article in the office of the secretary of state in electronic format shall...
- § 16-916.02 Electronic Filing; Statements Of Contributions And Expenditures; Counties, Cities, Towns, School Districts And Special Districts
Subject to legislative appropriation the secretary of state may develop an electronic filing system for statements, designations and reports that are required by this...
- § 16-917 Independent Expenditures; In-Kind Contribution; Civil Penalty
A. A political committee, corporation, limited liability company or labor organization that makes independent expenditures for literature or an advertisement relating to any one...
- § 16-918 Campaign Finance Reports; Notice; Civil Penalty; Prohibition On Candidacy
A. If a political committee fails to file a report in a timely manner as required by this chapter, the filing officer shall send...
- § 16-919 Prohibition Of Contributions By Corporations, Limited Liability Companies Or Labor Organizations; Exemption; Classification; Definitions
A. Except as provided in section 16-914.02, it is unlawful for a corporation or a limited liability company to make an expenditure or any...
- § 16-920 Permitted Expenditures By Corporations And Labor Organizations; Federal Law; Definitions
A. Expenditures for the following purposes are not political contributions prohibited by law: 1. Communications by a corporation to its stockholders and executive or...
- § 16-921 Unlawful Contributions By Corporations And Labor Organizations From A Fund; Procedures; Definitions
A. It is unlawful under any fund established by a corporation or labor organization pursuant to section 16-920, subsection A, paragraph 3: 1. For...
- § 16-922 Religious Assembly Or Institution Not Required To Register
Notwithstanding any other law, this state and any agency or political subdivision of this state shall not require a person to register as a...
- § 16-923 Volunteering Services For Expected Compensation; Classification
A person who voluntarily and unsolicitedly offers to work for and assist or in any manner voluntarily contributes to the nomination or election of...
- § 16-924 Civil Penalties; Attorney General; County, City Or Town Attorney
A. Unless another penalty is specifically prescribed in this title, if the filing officer for campaign finance reports designated pursuant to section 16-916, subsection...
- § 16-925 Deceptive Mailings; Civil Penalty
A. In an attempt to influence the outcome of an election, an individual or committee shall not deliver or mail any document that falsely...
Article 2 Citizens Clean Elections Act
- § 16-940 Findings And Declarations
(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. The people of Arizona declare our intent to create a clean elections system that will improve the integrity...
- § 16-941 Limits On Spending And Contributions For Political Campaigns
(Caution: 1998 Prop 105 applies) A. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a participating candidate: 1. Shall not accept any contributions, other than a...
- § 16-942 Civil Penalties And Forfeiture Of Office
(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. The civil penalty for a violation of any contribution or expenditure limit in section 16-941 by or on...
- § 16-943 Criminal Violations And Penalties
(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. A candidate, or any other person acting on behalf of a candidate, who knowingly violates section 16-941 is...
- § 16-945 Limits On Early Contributions
(Caution: 1998 Prop 105 applies) A. A participating candidate may accept early contributions only from individuals and only during the exploratory period and the...
- § 16-946 Qualifying Contributions
(Caution: 1998 Prop 105 applies) A. During the qualifying period, a participating candidate may collect qualifying contributions, which shall be paid to the fund....
- § 16-947 Certification As A Participating Candidate
(Caution: 1998 Prop 105 applies) A. A candidate who wishes to be certified as a participating candidate shall file, before the end of the...
- § 16-948 Controls On Participating Candidates' Campaign Accounts
(Caution: 1998 Prop 105 applies) A. A participating candidate shall conduct all financial activity through a single campaign account of the candidate's campaign committee....
- § 16-949 Controls On Spending From Citizens Clean Elections Fund
(Caution: 1998 Prop 105 applies) A. The commission shall not spend, on all costs incurred under this article during a particular calendar year, more...
- § 16-950 Qualification For Clean Elections Funding
(Caution: 1998 Prop 105 applies) A. A candidate who has made an application for certification may also apply, in accordance with subsection B of...
- § 16-951 Clean Elections Funding
(Caution: 1998 Prop 105 applies) A. At the beginning of the primary election period, the commission shall pay from the fund to the campaign...
- § 16-952 One‑party‑dominant Legislative District
(Caution: 1998 Prop 105 applies) Upon applying for clean elections funding pursuant to section 16-950, a participating candidate for the legislature in a one-party-dominant...
- § 16-953 Return Of Monies To The Citizens Clean Elections Fund
(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. At the end of the primary election period, a participating candidate who has received monies pursuant to section...
- § 16-954 Disposition Of Excess Monies
(Caution: 1998 Prop 105 applies) A. Beginning January 1, 1999, an additional surcharge of ten per cent shall be imposed on all civil and...
- § 16-955 Citizens Clean Election Commission; Structure
(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. The citizens clean elections commission is established consisting of five members. No more than two members of the...
- § 16-956 Voter Education And Enforcement Duties
(Caution: 1998 Prop 105 applies) A. The commission shall: 1. Develop a procedure for publishing a document or section of a document having a...
- § 16-957 Enforcement Procedure
(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. If the commission finds that there is reason to believe that a person has violated any provision of...
- § 16-958 Manner Of Filing Reports
(Caution: 1998 Prop 105 applies) A. Any person who has previously reached the dollar amount specified in section 16-941, subsection D for filing an...
- § 16-959 Inflationary And Other Adjustments Of Dollar Values
(Caution: 1998 Prop 105 applies) A. Every two years, the secretary of state shall modify the dollar values specified in the following parts of...
- § 16-960 Severability
(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) If a provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity...
- § 16-961 Definitions
(Caution: 1998 Prop 105 applies) A. The terms " candidate's campaign committee, " " contribution, " " expenditures, " " exploratory committee, " "...
Chapter 7 PENAL PROVISIONS
Article 1 General Provisions
- § 16-1001 Applicability Of Penal Provisions
The provisions of this title defining crimes involving elections and crimes against the elective franchise, and prescribing penalties therefor, apply to any general, primary...
- § 16-1002 Counterfeiting Or Distributing Unlawful Ballots; Classification
A person who counterfeits a ballot, or who circulates or gives to another a counterfeit ballot, knowing at the time that the ballot has...
- § 16-1003 False Endorsement, Knowing Destruction Or Delay In Delivery Of Ballot; Classification
A person who knowingly forges or falsely makes the official endorsement of a ballot, knowingly destroys or defaces a ballot, or knowingly delays the...
- § 16-1004 Interference With Or Corruption Of Election Officer; Interference With Voting Equipment; Classification
A. A person who at any election knowingly interferes in any manner with an officer of such election in the discharge of the officer's...
- § 16-1005 Ballot Abuse; Violation; Classification
A. Any person who knowingly marks a voted or unvoted ballot or ballot envelope with the intent to fix an election for his own...
- § 16-1006 Changing Vote Of Elector By Corrupt Means Or Inducement; Classification
A. It is unlawful for a person knowingly by force, threats, menaces, bribery or any corrupt means, either directly or indirectly: 1. To attempt...
- § 16-1007 Election Officer Ascertaining Or Disclosing Elector's Vote; Classification
An officer of an election, unless lawfully assisting a voter, is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor, who knowingly: 1. Previous to the closing...
- § 16-1008 Election Officer Changing Vote Of Elector By Menace Or Reward; Classification
An officer of an election who, while acting as such, knowingly induces an elector, either by menace, reward or promise thereof, to vote differently...
- § 16-1009 Failure Or Refusal To Perform Duty By Election Officer; Classification
A public officer upon whom a duty is imposed by this title, who knowingly fails or refuses to perform that duty in the manner...
- § 16-1010 Refusal By Election Officer To Perform Duty; Violation Of Election Law; Classification
A person charged with performance of any duty under any law relating to elections who knowingly refuses to perform such duty, or who, in...
- § 16-1011 Counterfeiting Election Returns; Classification
A. A person who knowingly forges or counterfeits returns of an election purporting to have been held at a precinct or place where no...
- § 16-1012 Intimidation Of Elector By Employer; Classification
A. It is unlawful for an employer knowingly: 1. In paying employees the salary or wages due them, to enclose their pay in envelopes...
- § 16-1013 Coercion Or Intimidation Of Elector; Classification
A. It is unlawful for a person knowingly: 1. Directly or indirectly, to make use of force, violence or restraint, or to inflict or...
- § 16-1014 Corruption Of Electors; Classification
A. It is unlawful for a person, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person knowingly: 1. To treat, give, pay, loan,...
- § 16-1015 Election Wagers; Classification
A person who, before or during an election provided by law, knowingly makes, offers or accepts a bet or wager, or takes a share...
- § 16-1016 Illegal Voting; Pollution Of Ballot Box; Removal Or Destruction Of Ballot Box, Poll Lists Or Ballots; Classification
A person is guilty of a class 5 felony who: 1. Not being entitled to vote, knowingly votes. 2. Knowingly votes more than once...
- § 16-1017 Unlawful Acts By Voters With Respect To Voting; Classification
A voter who knowingly commits any of the following acts is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor: 1. Makes a false statement as to...
- § 16-1018 Additional Unlawful Acts By Persons With Respect To Voting; Classification
A person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor: 1. Knowingly electioneers on election day within a...
- § 16-1019 Political Signs; Printed Materials; Tampering; Classification
A. It is a class 2 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly remove, alter, deface or cover any political sign of any candidate for...
- § 16-1020 Signing Of Petitions; Violation; Classification
A person knowingly signing any name other than his own to a nomination petition or a petition for formation, alteration or dissolution of a...
- § 16-1021 Enforcement By Attorney General And County, City Or Town Attorney
In any election for state office, members of the legislature, justices of the supreme court, judges of the court of appeals or statewide initiative...
Chapter 8 ESTABLISHMENT OF LEGISLATIVE AND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
Article 1 In General
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