AZ SB1546

Allows any elector to challenge a candidate's nomination based on qualifications for office, including compliance with the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, age, residency, professional requirements, or failure to pay fines and penalties.

Requires challenges to nomination petitions be filed within 5:00 p.m. on the tenth day (excluding weekends and holidays) after the deadline for filing nomination papers, with the superior court required to hear and decide the matter within ten days.

Mandates that the candidate, filing officer, and county/city election officials responsible for ballot preparation be named as defendants in nomination petition challenges.

Requires process of service be completed within twenty-four hours of filing the action (excluding weekends and holidays), with the filing officer notifying defendants by telephone and mail.

Disqualifies a candidate found guilty of petition forgery and bars them from seeking election to public office for a minimum of five years.