Bills that perpetrate election fraud myth & make it harder to vote

Please, weigh in on the bills that waste money and resources to perpetuate the myth of election fraud or make it more difficult to vote. 

Sign on to the Request to Speak system before the bills are heard in committee. 

https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

See bills and committee times below.

Monday, March 20th

Senate Committee on Elections at 2:00 PM

• HB2319 elections; rule of construction (Kolodin: Bliss, Carter, et al.) says the Legislature finds that public confidence in elections is best maintained by maximizing transparency and providing a rule of construction for interpreting statute relating to the conduct of elections. It says that court decisions do not have precedent relative to elections. Can you really do that? OPPOSE
• HB2415 active early voting lists; removal (Biasiucci: Bliss, Carbone, et al.) removes voters from the active early voting list if they do not vote in one election cycle. This would result in purging a lot of voters from the list. OPPOSE
• HB2552 voting; elections; tally; prohibition (Smith: Biasiucci, Bliss, et al.) prohibits ranked choice voting for the state, cities, counties, etc. OPPOSE
• HB2591 elections; early ballot drop boxes (Griffin) says early ballot drop boxes can only be used Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and to include a camera or video recorder. This is unnecessary and will limit opportunities for voting. OPPOSE
• HB2613 voting equipment; requirements; origin (Montenegro) prohibits the Secretary of State from certifying a voting machine unless 100 percent of the machine's components are from the United States. This would mean they use no voting machines. OPPOSE
• HCR2033 primary elections; eligible candidates (Smith: Chaplik, Heap, etc.) refers to the ballot a measure that says a Legislature-enacted direct primary election law supersedes any contrary or inconsistent provision of any charter, law, ordinance, rule, resolution or policy of any city. This is to preempt local election provisions. OPPOSE

Wednesday, March 22nd

House Committee on Municipal Oversight and Elections at 2:00 PM

• SB1095 early ballot envelope; notice (Carroll: Gowan: Livingston) requires an early ballot envelope to include a statement that says the election will be delayed if you return your ballot after the Friday before the election, which could discourage people returning early ballots. OPPOSE 
• SB1143 voting registrations; ballot requests; source (Hoffman: Farnsworth, Kern, et al.) limits distribution of early voting requests among other things. OPPOSE
• SB1144 electronic ballot adjudication; prohibition (Hoffman: Farnsworth, Kern, et al.) prohibits the electronic adjudication of ballots. OPPOSE
• SB1170 ballot drop boxes; prohibition (NOW: ballot drop boxes; requirements; appropriation) (Hoffman: Borrelli, Farnsworth, et al.) prohibits unmonitored drop boxes. OPPOSE
• SB1175 registrations; observers; counting procedures; verification (Kavanagh) expands access to precinct registers and information from voter registration forms and outlines procedures for a hand count audit if a political party provides an insufficient number of board workers to conduct the hand count audit. OPPOSE
• SB1471 ballot tabulation; hand count comparison (Kavanagh) essentially will require Maricopa and Pima counties to recount a sampling of ballots from four precincts for the 2022 election with the ultimate objective of determining how much it would cost to recount all the ballots for the 2022 election. This is not improving voting accuracy; it is just trying to perpetuate the myth of the “stolen” 2022 election into the 2024 election cycle. This is a waste of money. This violates state law about how to handle ballots.  OPPOSE
• SB1595 early ballots; identification; tabulation (Mesnard: Bennett, Carroll, et al.) requires voters to present valid identification after an election for a ballot that was delivered by a voter's agents or a voter who does not provide sufficient identification. OPPOSE
• SB1597 early ballot on-site tabulation; requirement (Mesnard) requires larger counties to provide voters early ballot onsite tabulation by the 2024 election. This will increase the burden on already overburdened elections workers. OPPOSE