- U.S. District Court Judge Michael Liburdi refused on Friday to bar a group called Clean Elections USA from monitor outdoor ballot boxes in Arizona’s largest county.
- Liburdi said to do otherwise could violate the monitors’ constitutional rights.
- Local law enforcement officials say that some ballot-box monitors have shown up armed and in ballistic vests.
- Arizona law states electioneers and monitors must remain 75-foot (23-meter) from a voting location.
