Draft for discussion. AI-drafted (Claude), 2026-08-08. Every legal citation must be verified by counsel before any of this is used. Companions: November strategy, Pima County first steps.
The pattern for every office: a public commitment before October, a written protocol, and a named point of contact.
Every eligible voter in this county will cast their ballot free of intimidation. That is Arizona law, and this office will enforce it.
Between now and November 3:
1. The 75-foot limit at every voting location will be enforced against anyone who violates it. No armed person, private or governmental, may station themselves at a voting location. This applies to everyone.
2. This office will not seize or assist in seizing ballots, tabulation equipment, or election records except under a judicial warrant reviewed by our counsel.
3. This office will not assist or accompany immigration enforcement at or near any voting location.
4. Election workers and voters can reach a designated duty officer directly at [number]. Calls from voting locations are priority calls.
If armed agents, federal or otherwise, appear at a voting or counting location:
1. Respond and stand between the agents and voters or ballots. Presence, not confrontation.
2. Ask for identification, agency, supervising official, and legal authority in writing. Warrantless demands for access to ballots, equipment, or voter records are refused pending counsel review.
3. Notify: the duty commander, the Elections Director, county counsel, and the designated liaison, in that order. [Names and numbers filled in and rehearsed before October.]
4. Document everything: names, badge numbers, vehicles, times, orders given.
Uniformed presence rules: officers do not stand in or near voter lines except when responding to a call. Election-day staging locations are set in advance, out of sight of voting locations.
To: Mayor and Council; Chief of Police. Re: Authority of federal agents at city facilities used as voting locations.
Question 1. May federal agents enter a city facility being used as a vote center without a judicial warrant?
Short answer to develop: the city as property owner may limit access to non-public areas; administrative warrants (ICE Form I-200/I-205) are not judicial warrants and do not compel entry. [Verify: Fourth Amendment public/non-public forum analysis for polling sites.]
Question 2. What law governs armed personnel at voting locations?
Short answer to develop: Arizona's 75-foot limit and electioneering rules [verify A.R.S. § 16-515]; state voter-intimidation prohibitions [verify A.R.S. § 16-1013]; federal prohibitions on intimidation [verify 52 U.S.C. § 20511, 18 U.S.C. § 594] and on stationing armed men at polls [verify 18 U.S.C. § 592]. See ACLU of Arizona, Federal Agents and Police at the Polls.
Question 3. Who acts, and how fast, if interference occurs?
To develop: standing of the city vs. county vs. AG to seek emergency injunctive relief; pre-drafted TRO papers; after-hours judicial contact procedure agreed with the county attorney and AG in advance.
Question 4. May city employees refuse warrantless demands for voter or election information?
To develop: yes-pending-counsel-review as written policy, mirroring the county protocol, so no employee decides alone at a counter.