[vettestr]

I asked the folks at the polling place and stumped 8 people, everyone there. It was the thought that maybe just pre printed spaces but another pointed out the blanks were very deliberate. If a race had 3 choices there was also 3 write in blanks and so on. One of the volunteers confirmed AZ does not allow cross voting or a Dem./Rep. voting for a person not of their registered Party. Ballots are preprinted with all candidates for the Party printed for each race and you can not vote out of Party so we could not come up with a possible use of the write in spaces in a Primary Election.????
Anybody else think of a possible reason?