{"id":1564940,"date":"2022-07-21T15:49:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T19:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1564940"},"modified":"2022-07-21T15:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T19:49:23","slug":"arizona-gop-offers-50000-reward-for-evidence-of-vote-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-gop-offers-50000-reward-for-evidence-of-vote-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona GOP Offers $50,000 Reward for Evidence of Vote Buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-gop-offers-50000-reward-for-evidence-of-vote-buying%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1564940&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Republican Party of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-arizona\">Arizona<\/a> (RPAZ) will offer up to two $50,000 rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone suspected of \u201cvote-buying\u201d in the statewide primary on Aug. 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is historical precedent of vote-buying fraud, which ultimately led to secret ballot laws. Unfortunately, the movement towards mass mail-in voting completely undoes secret ballot reform,\u201d the RPAZ said in a July 20 letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMail-in ballots are not secret\u2014once a person has a ballot in their home, they can easily show it to anyone, including bad actors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter says the act of vote-buying happens when someone completes a mail-in ballot in front of a vote-buyer. If the voter then gives the buyer the completed ballot and signed ballot return envelope, the party considers that vote-buying.<\/p>\n<p>And it can take many forms\u2014including an offer of money, goods, or services in exchange for votes.<\/p>\n<p>Transparency International, a global coalition against corruption, says vote-buying signifies a \u201csystemic lack of political integrity that weakens the trust citizens have in their elected representatives and limits their ability to speak up freely and safely against corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElection integrity is of paramount importance. We know from the movie \u20182,000 Mules\u2019 by Dinesh D\u2019Souza that there was significant ballot trafficking during the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe suspect that the primary source of the trafficked ballots was vote-buying,\u201d the Republican letter added.<\/p>\n<p>The party specifically desires information or evidence of Arizona state election law violations that lead to a conviction before Dec. 31, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>It asks people to contact\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VoteBuyingReward@azgop.org<\/a>. to learn more about, or report, vote-buying.<\/p>\n<p>The RPAZ did not immediately respond to The Epoch Times requesting comment.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona Rep. Mark Finchem, a Republican and a candidate for Arizona secretary of state, said he supports offering rewards that help to ferret out voter fraud in Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party of Arizona (RPAZ) will offer up to two $50,000 rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone suspected of \u201cvote-buying\u201d in the statewide primary on Aug. 2. \u201cThere is historical precedent of vote-buying fraud, which ultimately led to secret ballot laws. Unfortunately, the movement towards mass mail-in voting completely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}