The Arizona Supreme Court ruled in favor of keeping a proposition seeking to remove partisan primary elections on the ballot despite a dispute over signatures used to qualify the measure. Proposition 140 would make the primary system in Arizona similar to neighboring California,

Votes will be counted for an open primaries ballot initiative that has been the subject of whiplash-inducing court challenge, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled just 31 days before the election. The high court ruled on Friday,

The Arizona Supreme Court rejected a challenge to Proposition 140, allowing voters to decide whether to replace the state's partisan primary elections with nonpartisan open primaries. State of play: The court Friday morning upheld a trial judge's ruling that dismissed a challenge arguing Prop.