Attorney General Mark Brnovich refused Thursday to try to postpone Tuesday’s special election despite foul-ups by Secretary of State Michele Reagan, saying there’s nothing in state law to permit that. At a hastily called press conference, Brnovich unloaded on Reagan for failing to comply with state laws requiring voters to get ballot pamphlets explaining the two issues before they got their actual early ballots. And he said there needs to be an investigation of why Reagan hid that information from the public for weeks.
“This was a complete fiasco,” Brnovich said. “I don’t know what the right word to express it is,” he continued. “But it pisses me off, as an Arizonan, as the attorney general.”
But Brnovich laid some of the blame on lawmakers for leaving him with his hands tied. “We know that we want strict compliance with election laws,” he said. “But the legislature never provided any penalty.”
Reagan spokesman Matt Roberts said Thursday afternoon his boss was too busy to speak to reporters.
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