Chavez v. Brewer
Arizona, which had been an all paper ballot, optical scan voting state, entered into contracts in December 2005, with major voting system vendors for the purchase of DRE voting equipment. In May 2006, a group of Arizona voters filed a lawsuit in Arizona Superior Court in Phoenix against Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer seeking to prevent the use of this DRE voting equipment on the grounds that it violated state constitutional and statutory requirements protecting broad access to voting and ensuring accuracy in vote recording and tabulation.





