PHOENIX (AP) — A judge is mulling whether to order officials to count mail-in ballots up to 10 extra days after election day for Navajo Nation members who live on the tribe's reservation in Arizona and whose ballots are postmarked by election day.
A lawyer representing Navajo Nation members said at a hearing that mail service on the reservation is much slower than other communities and argued that Arizona's requirement that ballots be turned in to authorities by 7 p.m. on election night would disenfranchise tribal members.
Secretary of State Katie Hobbs' office says those who filed the lawsuit haven't explained why they can't meet the existing deadline.
