Can a candidate for governor list a UPS Store as his home address? Arizona's high court will decide.
If the Arizona Supreme Court doesn’t kick a third-party candidate for governor off the ballot for listing a P.O. box as his address on key paperwork, then a state law requiring candidates to declare their actual residential address will be unenforceable, attorneys challenging Hugh Lytle’s candidacy argued in a legal filing this week.
“According to Mr. Lytle, a candidate for statewide office could list any commercial address in Arizona — a law firm, a hotel, a FedEx store, or anywhere else. That’s not what the statutes say,” wrote Austin Yost, an attorney for Democratic activist Craig Beckman.
Lytle, a wealthy entrepreneur, hopes to be on the ballot as a candidate for the No Labels Party. But Beckman claims that, because Lytle listed a P.O. box on his nomination paperwork and nominating petitions instead of the “actual residential address” that is required by state law, his candidacy is illegal.
“Allowing him to list a UPS store instead of his actual residence address would undermine legislative intent and turn this statutory scheme into a dead letter,” Yost argued in an opening brief to the Supreme Court.
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