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No endorsement

The race

The constable is the executive enforcement officer of the justice court: a peace officer who serves legal process — summonses, subpoenas, eviction writs, warrants, and orders of protection — for the precinct. District 4 is the Western Pinal precinct (the City of Maricopa area). The term is four years. This seat has a vacancy in its recent history: Constable Glenn Morrison resigned effective September 2024 to pursue a justice of the peace position, and the Board of Supervisors appointed a replacement to serve until this 2026 general election — so this race fills the office by election for a full term.

The verified November 3, 2026 roster has one name on it: William "Bill" Griffin (Republican). The source is the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission's official 2026 general-election candidate list for Pinal County. The county's nomination-petitions file shows the contested primary behind it: Griffin and Timothy "Tim" Nuanes filed as Republicans, InMaricopa's election-night reporting had Griffin leading in the unfinished count, and the official general list confirms Griffin is the nominee — Nuanes is not on the November ballot. No Democrat filed.

The candidates

William "Bill" Griffin (Republican) is the Republican nominee. His one documented fact is his primary victory: he filed for an office that had to be filled by appointment after a resignation, contested a primary, and won it. Beyond that, this pass located no campaign site, no biography, no questionnaire or Vote411 entry, and no news coverage of Griffin or his candidacy beyond the election-night lead report. Nothing sourced describes his background, experience, or platform. Under our standards the rest of his record is unproven — never-served is a watch posture, never a demerit — and we print the primary result and the gap, nothing more.

Timothy "Tim" Nuanes (Republican) is not on this ballot; he is part of the record because he contested the primary and lost it. Beyond his filing, this pass located no public record for Nuanes either.

Pros and cons

Record gaps

The gap is the nominee's public record, and the search is documented on the article's face per our deep-pass rule. We worked: the Clean Elections Commission's official general candidate list (the roster), the county's nomination-petitions file (the primary field), the Arizona Constables Association's Pinal membership page, the county's constable directories, InMaricopa's primary reporting via KOPA, Pinal Post's coverage of this seat's 2024 vacancy, and campaign and news searches (PinalCentral, azcentral, Copper Area) for both primary candidates' names. They returned the filings, the lead report, and the general list — and no record for either man.

OUR CALL

Our call: no endorsement — uncontested race.

Griffin is the only name on the ballot and will presumably take the office. But our uncontested-race rule requires an affirmatively aligning verified record before we endorse a sole candidate, and beyond his primary victory there is no record here to verify — no service history, no platform, no public biography in any source we could work. The primary win is a fact, and it is printed above; it is not, by itself, the verified record our rule requires. We document the race; we do not manufacture the endorsement.

For the complete Election 2026 breakdown — every race, claim by claim — see the full coverage on our website.

Vote early. Research your candidates. Choose the best moderates, whatever their party — no extremism from either side. And encourage your friends and family to do the same.

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Election result — November 4, 2026

Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.

AI-assisted article — but the sources are human, and the facts are very real.

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