Arizona Revised Statutes
Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 16-120 (2026)
Eligibility to vote
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A. An elector shall not vote in an election called pursuant to the laws of this state unless the elector has been registered to vote as a resident within the boundaries or the proposed boundaries of the election district for which the election is being conducted and the registration has been received by the county recorder or the recorder's designee pursuant to section 16-134 before midnight of the twenty-ninth day preceding the date of the election.
B. If the twenty-ninth day preceding the date of the election falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other legal holiday, voter registrations that are received on the next business day immediately following the Saturday, Sunday or other legal holiday are deemed to have been timely received for purposes of voting in that election.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 10
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1988–2021 · leading case: David Isabel v. Michele Reagan, 987 F.3d 1220 (9th Cir. 2021).
David Isabel v. Michele Reagan, 987 F.3d 1220 (9th Cir. 2021). “His cast ballot, however, was not counted because officials in the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office determined that plaintiff was not an eligible voter due to his failure to register by the October 10, 2016 deadline, as set forth in Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 16-120 . The panel held…”
Prescott Newspapers, Inc. v. Yavapai Cmty. Hosp. Ass'n, 785 P.2d 1221 (Ariz. Ct. App. 1989). “A.R.S. §§ 16-120, 16-121, and 16-122. To be a properly-registered voter for District elections, the individual must, among other requirements, be 1) at least eighteen years old, 2) a United States citizen, and 3) a resident of the state for at least fifty days before the…”
Mi Familia Vota v. Katie Hobbs, 977 F.3d 948 (9th Cir. 2020). “See Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 16-120 (A). Based on the November 3, 2020 date for the general election this year, the registration cut- off date prescribed by § 16-120(A) was October 5, 2020.”
KZPZ Broad., Inc. v. Black Canyon City Concerned Citizens, 13 P.3d 772 (Ariz. Ct. App. 2000). “See A.R.S. § 16-120 (no elector shall vote in an election “unless the elector has been registered to vote as a resident within the boundaries or the proposed boundaries of the election district for which the election is being conducted”).”
North Carolina State Conf. of the NAACP v. McCrory, 997 F. Supp. 2d 322 (M.D.N.C. 2014). “070 (c)-(d) (30 days); Ariz.Rev.Stat. Ann. § 16-120 (30 days); Ark.”
Energy Fuels Nuclear, Inc. v. Coconino Cnty., 766 P.2d 83 (Ariz. 1988). “See A.R.S. § 16-120 (Supp.1988). Arizona Revised Statutes § 16-154 permits an elector to transfer his registration by mailing the county recorder notice of a change of address.”
Mi Familia Vota v. Katie Hobbs (9th Cir. 2020). “See Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 16-120 (A). Based on the November 3, 2020 date for the general election this year, the registration cut- off date prescribed by § 16-120(A) was October 5, 2020.”
Isabel v. Reagan (D. Ariz. 2019). “need not determine 28 whether the Secretary was required to extend the deadline here pursuant to § 1-303, because 1 any application of Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 16-120 that effectively requires that voter registration 2 to be received earlier than 30 days before a federal election is…”
Mi Familia Vota v. Hobbs (D. Ariz. 2020). “7 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Defendant is preliminarily enjoined from 8 | enforcing the A.R.S. § 16-120 October 5, 2020 voter registration cutoff.”
Griffith v. Baca, 236 P.3d 1192 (Ariz. 2010). “See A.R.S. § 16-120 (2006) (generally requiring elector to be registered within a voting district twenty-nine days preceding an election in order to be eligible to vote).”
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