Arizona officials celebrate U.S. Supreme Court ruling to protect mail-in voting

Attorney General Kris Mayes says Arizona has avoided “serious chaos” thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Monday ruling protecting mail-in voting.

Justices on Monday threw out President Donald's Trump’s effort to restrict mail-in voting ahead of the midterms.

Mayes noted that early voting has already started in several states, making it impossible to implement Trump’s rules.

“I am very proud that we sued the federal government to block this illegal rule that would have interfered with the way that millions of Arizonans vote,” Mayes said Tuesday.

Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said the upcoming election will go ahead without disruption. They encourage Arizonans to go vote.

“This is a big win for voters, not just in Arizona but across the United States, and it upholds the constitutional rule, Article 1, Section 4 that states get to make the rules, not the White House,” Fontes said.

Trump has claimed repeatedly, without evidence, that mail-in voting is a source of fraud despite using that method to vote himself.

More than 80% of Arizona voters choose to cast mail-in ballots.

Trump lambasted the court’s decision on Tuesday morning.

“Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting “disaster,” which is a laughing stock all over the World, and where we are the only country that has to endure such a Nation Destroying SCAM,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

He went on to say that the ruling will make it easier for Democrats to cheat in the upcoming election.

Mayes said Trump’s message shows that he hasn’t given up on his effort to go after mail-in voting.

“He [Trump] obviously personally prefers it but doesn't want it for anybody else so yeah we will remain vigilant,” Mayes said. “We will continue to defend vote by mail in our state.”