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Arizona has been at the center of much discussion lately. As the keen political observer would probably know, the discussion has been centered around voting.
Specifically voting integrity. Well, the conversation and controversies are ongoing and there has just been a major development. The legislator of Arizona, in fact, just approved a bill that would require the removal of infrequent voters from the state’s permanent early voting list.
This is a watershed moment for Arizona politics and could end up being a game changer in local, and indeed, national government moving forward. This is an admirable step forward and one which the rest of the country could do well to learn from.
It is now being reported that:
A bill that “requires the state to remove infrequent voters from the state’s Permanent Early Voting List, turning it into an ‘active’ early voting list,” was approved by the Arizona legislature last year.
The Proposition 210 ballot initiative, which could have fundamentally changed Arizona’s election regulations, some of which the state legislature recently implemented, had the capacity to do so.
The 26-page proposal, according to The Tennessee Star, “is very similar to the federal HR 1,” a piece of legislation that congressional Democrats had previously sponsored and which would have resulted in a federal takeover of elections.
Same-day voter registration, the removal of Arizona’s “ballot harvesting ban,” and “voter registration with minimal identification, such as a pay stub,” were among the proposed amendments to the state’s election code.
Other regulations in the action plan might have excluded “electors who don’t choose the president selected by Arizona’s presidential election,” removed “the 30-day residency requirement in order to vote,” and created it “harder to cancel voter registrations of inactive voters,” among many others.
The Biden Department of Justice has expressed opposition to a statute that GOP Gov. Doug Ducey passed earlier this year mandating voters to produce proof of citizenship in order to cast a ballot in federal elections.
The Biden Department of Justice later sued Arizona over the statute, calling it a “unnecessary requirement” that “turns the clock back on progress” and “block[s] eligible voters from the registration rolls for certain federal elections.”
However, the Arizona Supreme Court considered the total amount of signatures from voters before making a decision regarding voting and upholding the integrity rule.
The state Supreme Court’s ruling “upholds a lower court ruling issued hours earlier, in which Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Joseph Mikitish rejected thousands of signatures and said the initiative fell 1,458 signatures short of the 238,000 required to qualify for the ballot,” according to the Associated Press.
This is just the latest in the saga of Arizona politics. In fact, we reported just yesterday that the state of Arizona has decided to build its own border wall in the aftermath of a two-decade records surge in illegal immigration.
Prior to that, Arizona actually fired its election chief after a disaster involving its primary ballots. Even before that, Arizona famously exposed the identities of various election employees who were trying to meddle in the election. Follow The Raging Patriot for more on this story as it develops!
