The Arizona Supreme Court has rejected a legal challenge seeking to remove Bobbi Buchli from the 2026 Gilbert Town Council primary election ballot, affirming a lower court ruling that found her nomination petitions substantially complied with Arizona law.
In a decision order filed May 4, the court ruled that challenger Maureen Hoppe, a Gilbert resident, failed to show that wording issues in Buchli’s petition captions were serious enough to invalidate the signatures she collected.
The case centered on two alleged flaws in the wording of Buchli’s nomination petitions. One version of the petitions described the political division as “LD 14 Town of Gilbert,” while another referred to the election simply as the “2026 election” rather than specifically identifying it as a primary election.
