Prison sought for Arizona official in ballot harvesting case

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking a one-year prison sentence for a school board member in southern Arizona for illegally collecting four early ballots during the 2020 primary election. If probation is instead imposed, prosecutors said the judge should enforce a provision of Guillermina Fuentes’ plea deal that bars her from holding public office while on probation. Fuentes and another woman were scheduled to be sentenced Thursday on a ballot abuse conviction in Yuma, but the court said the hearing had been postponed until Sept. 1. Authorities say the two women participated in “ballot harvesting” in the border community of San Luis.