Republicans want Arizona to count votes like Florida. It's not that simple.
Republican lawmakers in Arizona say that voters are desperate for “Florida-style” election reforms that would speed up the state’s slow finalization of results. Those legislators have proposed numerous changes that critics say would disenfranchise some voters, but they argue would put an end to the state’s elections being viewed as the “laughingstock of the country.”
“If you give your right to vote a priority, then you have plenty of options to vote,” Rep. Khyl Powell, R-Gilbert, said during a Feb. 3 Federalism, Military Affairs and Elections Committee meeting. “The Constitution of the United States was written to protect our rights, not to provide equal things.”
Arizona’s Republican lawmakers have made changing election processes — and specifically faster results — a key part of their goals this year, and have proposed several pieces of legislation that would make our elections more like Florida’s
House Bill 2703, the proposal that House Republicans have most recently rallied around, would cut off voters’ ability to drop off their mail-in ballots at any polling location in their county at 7 p.m. the Friday before the election. It would also require voters on the Active Early Voter List — who receive a ballot in the mail automatically — to confirm their address each election cycle or be booted off the list.
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