In 1991, the Arizona Legislature allowed voters to request an absentee ballot for any reason. Before the change in the law, a voter requesting an absentee ballot had to prove they could not make it to the polls on election day. In 1997, state lawmakers made a simple change in Arizona election law. The word “absentee” … Read more
In Rucho v. Common Cause and Lamone v. Benisek in 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts have no jurisdiction to review partisan gerrymandering cases, greenlighting the extreme gerrymandering that we have seen since the 2020 Census. But the court noted that federal courts do have jurisdiction to review racial gerrymamdering cases. Supreme … Read more
Last May I posted, (Update) ‘Consequences Culture’: Corporate Accountability For Failing To Defend Voting Rights (excerpt): E.J. Montini of The Arizona Republic actually went there and called on the NFL to cancel Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium in 2023, in response to the voter suppression bill passed by our MAGA/QAnon cult legislature and signed … Read more
It’s rare when I have an opportunity to say this, but “Thank you Rep. Rusty Bowers” for this one act of patriotism. Don’t let it go to your head. Howard Fischer reports, Arizona House speaker quashes bill to allow lawmakers to reject election results: The House Speaker is unilaterally quashing legislation that would have given … Read more
Politico reports, Jan. 6 select committee subpoenas phone records of Arizona GOP chair The Jan. 6 select committee has subpoenaed the phone records of Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael Ward, who both signed documents falsely claiming to be among their state’s presidential electors in 2020. Video evidence for the January 6 … Read more