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Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, seen here during an April 15 bill signing, on Tuesday signed legislation making it easier to remove infrequent voters from a list of those who automatically get a mail-in ballot each election.
Shortly after Arizona Republican lawmakers approved it, GOP Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday quickly signed a bill into law that could remove tens of thousands of voters from the state s early ballot mailing list.
Voters who sign up for the state s Permanent Early Voting List PEVL for short are automatically sent a ballot for every election in which they re eligible to vote.
The PEVL has grown increasingly popular with each passing election in Arizona. And whether voters actually use their early ballot or not has to date been irrelevant.
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Let’s compare and contrast to see which voting operation is more likely to commit fraud, the actual election or the audit.
In the election, every election task was undertaken by a team that consisted of people from different political parties – signature verification, ballot batching, ballot duplication (when the machines could not read the ballot due to tears or stains or the like), adjudication, conducting the hand audit, and even mundane things like driving the trucks to deliver and pick up the ballots from the polling places.
In the audit, people won’t tell us who is filling their roles and are making no claims that each team is represented by more than one party.
Business group pressures AZGOP lawmakers to abandon voter suppression bills
Prominent business leaders are asking lawmakers to reject several election-related bills that they deemed attempts to suppress voting in Arizona, a move that comes as Georgia faces calls for boycotts for passing similar legislation.
The business group Greater Phoenix Leadership issued a statement on Friday, which it also sent to members of the legislature, opposing legislation that would purge inactive voters from the state’s Permanent Early Voting List, require voters to add proof of identification to their early ballots and limit the early voting period before elections.
The statement came in the form of an op-ed by GPL board members Adam Goodman and Sharon Harper, who co-chair the group’s public policy committee, that ran in the
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