In Arizona the ID requirements are just one of many obstacles. The registration process favors elderly (sometimes deceased) voters over new voters in different ways. The mail in ballots avoid the polling place documentation hurdle, and the mostly older electorate who get them has a verifiable partisan history, The process of removing dead, incapacited, spouses and persons with multiple addresses/names has major flaws while the disenfranchisement of new voters is assisted by the motor vehicle division which refuses to update records of expunged juvenile records and any hint of vehicle infractions in the issuance of licenses and restrictions on same. Like the lifting of felony voter restrictions, racial profiling (protecting us from a non existant wave of Hispanic voter fraud) is widespread, and many eligible hispanic voters avoid polling places and the over zealous county deportation task forces. As in the state to the east, New Mexico, Arizona has urban areas with mixed racial populations, but by county, the rural far flung tribal populations can be gerrymandered to dilute Democrat strongholds. The election boards are basically by county, but with the blurring of boundaries , precincts are often controlled by distant, larger county boards. In both states county boards are controlled by Republican secretaries of state who may be among the few state elected state officials to not be Democratic. State or Federal challenges to ID discrimination legislation is absent focus on the additional costs to vote, which should be akin to the poll taxes outlawed in the bible belt decades ago. The Secretary of State dicates the methods of balloting and counting results and especially the 'vendors' who supply not only the ballot scanners but the tabulating software and the digital transfer of results to the main computers. Although a recount of the paper ballots is easily accomplished, recent cases of challenged proposition votes were unable to force recounts of improbable reverses of polled results. Many voters are discouraged by polling place/registration difficulties and the over use of 'provisional'ballots which may never be counted even if the results are to close to call just after the polls close. Mail in ballots can be dropped off at any of the precincts in your county up to the polls closing on election day eve, but like the many provisional ballots, they aren't counted in time to effect the prime time coverage, which may or may not allow verification or recounting.