Posted on 05/29/2021 6:10:03 PM PDT by george76
An Arizona state bill that would have required absentee ballots list more personal information failed in the Republican-controlled state House on Wednesday.
Arizona state Senate Bill 1713 would have required absentee ballots to list a voter’s birthday, plus either the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, a state-issued identification number or a voter registration number, failed in the GOP-controlled Arizona House Wednesday night. Voters would have had to fill out an affidavit that all the information they put down on their ballot is correct.
The bill failed on a 29-31 vote, with two Republicans joining the entire Democratic caucus in voting against it.
Democrats argued that the bill would put an unnecessary strain on counties, especially ones with smaller tax bases, as they administered elections.
“Currently in the process, in Arizona’s largest county, it is 528 hours of ripping the flap of the envelope, at one second a ballot,” Democratic Rep. Athena Salman said. “So the impact of 1713 would take that 520 hours right now of ripping — one second a ballot, the status quo that we have — and it would add an additional 2,500. That’s 2,500 hours, costing over $35,000.”
She also said the new provision may deter some voters in Arizona from using absentee ballots — where over 80% of voters cast their ballots by mail — due to fears over having their personal information compromised.
“We also have received notice from insurance companies that by putting this information — by putting your last four digits of your Social Security number, and your birthday, and your signature in the ballot envelope — it is an identity thief’s dream come true,” Salman said. “It compromises the identity of the voter and opens it up and exposes them to risk, in which their identity can be stolen later on down the road.”
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren said on the floor the bill could hurt tribal voters, as well, due to discrepancies over their birthdates.
“This bill will disproportionately impact our tribal elders who weren’t born in the hospital and don’t have an accurate birth date across all of their records,” Blackwater- Nygren said.
The bill hadn’t been discussed since early March, when the Senate passed it and it was sent to the House for consideration.
Republicans are currently wrangling to get a budget passed over the next few days — and are working to incorporate some election and voting-related bills into the spending plan through amendments. The GOP majority is struggling, however, to get all of its members on board with the budget proposal for reasons including frustration about the new proposed tax plan.
On Tuesday, both the Senate and House appropriations committees passed a part of a budget amendment which would strip Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ ability to defend Arizona in litigation related to elections.
The amendment would give the power exclusively to the attorney general, though the provision would only be in effect until January 2023, when a new term for the secretary of state’s office begins.
The move comes after Hobbs last year filed complaints with the State Bar of Arizona against Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich, following a history of many election-related disagreements.
Hobbs said in a statement that the motivation behind the legislative amendment was clear.
“All year, our legislature has worked to undermine our elections — from a wave of bills to make it harder to vote to the ridiculous ‘audit’ taking place at the Coliseum. It appears their next step is an attempt to undermine Arizona’s Chief Election Officer and prevent me from doing the job Arizona voters elected me to do,” Hobbs said. “The fact that the legislature has singled out me and my Office for these unjustifiable restrictions — restrictions which expire at the end of my term — make it clear what this is really about: partisan politics.”
The Senate already passed a bill which would remove voters from the state’s permanent early voting list if they did not use it at least once in two consecutive election cycles. Republican Gov. Doug Ducey signed the bill shortly after it was passed.
Democrats warn that SB1713 may not be completely dead until the session officially wraps, but they called the result today a win.
We have to weed out the Assistant Democrats.
The article doesn’t specify the names of the turncoats.
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America- have you figured it out yet- you have been infiltrated. You are about to cease to exist as a republic.
Yep.
Arizona, I fear, is lost. They will continue to allow one county to manufacture as many votes as it takes to win a statewide election.
Meanwhile, the Assistant Democrats break and run like the little female dogs that they are.
With the communists on a roll nationwide, there will be more & more GOP rodents deserting everywhere...
Already has.
Face it folks, Civilian government has failed. It has collapsed. It has gone pining in the fjords. It is an ex-civilian government.
Late 2020, state legislatures failed, state courts failed, state supreme courts failed, SCOTUS failed. Our SOS/govs failed, totally corrupted in the "swing" states. Then, early 2021, Congress and EC challenges failed.
NCSWIC.
Easy Call, both are blackmailed due to some sort of sexual perversion.
Democrats argued that the bill would put an unnecessary strain on counties, especially ones with smaller tax bases, as they administered elections.>>>> These people are completely incapable of handling the processing of anything. especially voting. Cease the mail in ballot stuff now.
OK. Pass a law requiring everybody to show proof of citizenship to get an absentee ballot.
Pima County does it too. They have all kinds of ways. The whole US is lost.
Nope, not lost. The days of the McCain cabal and RINOs are numbered. They are in their last throes of power. The 2020 election debacle has awakened a sleeping giant and we woke up in a bad mood.
Every critical or “swing” state has at its heart at least one dem-controlled major city that serves as a vote factory for dems, and those factories reliably crank out fraudulent dem votes every election. In the Eastern and Midwestern states, these vote factories are run primarily by inner city blacks. Think Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, in particular. Yes, I’m going to say it: The black inner city residents running these “vote counting” centers, already possessing that big city ghetto criminal mentality, have no conscience at all about doing whatever is necessary to ensure that the dem candidate wins. Committing crime is just tradition to them. It’s just what you do, like selling crack in the hood.
Rep. John, Joel [R] Member of the Arizona House of Representatives from the 4th District covering parts of Pima, Maricopa, Pinal, and Yuma counties. Rep. Udall, Michelle [R] Arizona House of Representatives from the 25th district in southeast Maricopa County [Mesa].
Michelle Udall is a Mormon and probably wears magic underwear like Milt Dumbney.
When Voter Requirements become a “Strain”, maybe those people should think about the COST PAID IN BLOOD for US to have the ability to Vote in the First Place.
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