[EL] Polygamous sect supporters' improper voting RE: ELB News and Commentary 1/5/20

Sun Jan 5 21:48:45 PST 2020

Thanks for the clarification, Paul.

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Justin Levitt
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On Jan 5, 2020, at 5:08 PM, Paul Weich <paul at arizonaspolitics.com> wrote:

I'm following up on the thorough article in the Salt Lake Trib re: FLDS supporters improperly voting, and Professor Levitt's valid point questioning whether the people were properly registered.

In Arizona - where this portion of the FLDS story takes place) - the supporters were NOT properly registered once they were evicted. The statute requires them to re-register and use (1) a homeless shelter to which he/she "regularly returns"; (2) place where they *are* residing; (3) the county courthouse; or (4) a general delivery address (USPS). (A.R.S. §16-121)

QUESTION for the listserv: if they HAD voted multiple times, would the correct term be "polysuffrageous", "polytribous" or something else. (I would have loved to throw those into the headline!)

--Paul

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Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/5/20
From: "Levitt, Justin" <justin.levitt at lls.edu<mailto:justin.levitt at lls.edu>>
Date: Sun, January 05, 2020 2:11 pm
To: Election Law Listserv <law-election at uci.edu<mailto:law-election at uci.edu>>

“Voters in town once run by polygamous sect probably broke the law when they cast ballots, prosecutor says, but charges are unlikely”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108725>
Posted on January 5, 2020 12:54 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108725> by Justin Levitt<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
The Salt Lake Tribune runs a story<https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/01/05/voters-town-once-run-by/> about potential improper registration in Colorado City (which, despite the name, is half of a community that straddles the Utah-Arizona boder<https://www.google.com/maps/place/Colorado+City,+AZ+86021/@37.0029594,-113.0117092,13.54z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x80cb20481124fce1:0x29e37db4075fd3f0!8m2!3d36.9902621!4d-112.9757702>).
There are real problems<https://www.justice.gov/crt/case/united-states-v-town-colorado-city-d-ariz> of unlawful behavior in Colorado City.  But some of the anecdotes in the story seem to suggest a conflation of domicile and physical presence. As one example:
Lori Barlow acknowledges she was one person whose address was out of date yet voted anyway. She still lives in Colorado City in what she says is temporary housing.
Smith and Mohave County, Barlow said, have failed to appreciate the housing challenges in Colorado City, where many people loyal to imprisoned FLDS President Warren Jeffs have chosen to be evicted rather than deal with a local land trust that owns many of the homes.
“I did not change my address,” Barlow said, “because I had nothing to change it to.”
The story doesn’t state otherwise … but in most states, someone in Barlow’s apparent position is properly registered at her old address even if she no longer sleeps there at night, as long as she hasn’t yet established permanent residence elsewhere.
<https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D108725&title=%E2%80%9CVoters%20in%20town%20once%20run%20by%20polygamous%20sect%20probably%20broke%20the%20law%20when%20they%20cast%20ballots%2C%20prosecutor%20says%2C%20but%20charges%20are%20unlikely%E2%80%9D>
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Posted in chicanery<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, voter registration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>

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