{"id":570192,"date":"2021-06-22T10:36:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570192"},"modified":"2021-06-22T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T14:37:01","slug":"arizona-gop-advances-two-election-integrity-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-gop-advances-two-election-integrity-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona GOP Advances Two Election Integrity Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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-advances-two-election-integrity-bills%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=570192&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1229319801.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-76 Component-p-0-2-67\">Arizona House Republicans on Monday advanced two measures related to election integrity.<\/p>\n<p>One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.azleg.gov\/BillStatus\/BillOverview\/74438\">measures<\/a>, which passed in the House and still needs Senate approval, bumps the recount threshold to 0.5 percentage points. The AZMirror <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azmirror.com\/2021\/06\/21\/house-passes-bill-for-investigations-of-ballot-signature-mismatches\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p data-wahfont=\"15\"><em>The House also passed Senate Bill 1083, which expands the narrow circumstances under which a recount can be held for an election. Current state law only requires a recount if the margin of victory is within one-tenth of 1% of the combined vote total of the top two candidates, or between 10 and 200 votes, depending on the race, whichever is less.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-wahfont=\"15\"><em>SB1083 would require a recount if the margin of victory is within one-half of 1% of the combined vote total.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-wahfont=\"15\">\u201cHad the proposal been law last year, there would have been a mandatory recount of the presidential race in Arizona, in which President Joe Biden defeated Trump by 10,457 votes, which is just over three-tenths of a percent of the two candidates\u2019 vote total,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n<p>The other bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.azleg.gov\/BillStatus\/BillOverview\/74982\">SB 1241<\/a>, relates to voter signature. In effect, the bill would \u201c<span data-wahfont=\"15\">require county election officials to send information about mismatched signatures to county attorneys or the Attorney General\u2019s Office for possible investigation,\u201d AZMirror reported:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19\">\n<p data-wahfont=\"15\"><em>When a voter casts an early ballot, the option preferred by the overwhelming majority of Arizona voters, they sign their names on the envelopes they use to transmit their ballots to election officials. Election workers compare the signatures to the signatures on file for those voters to confirm their identities. If the signatures don\u2019t match, they attempt to contact the voters to give them an opportunity to \u201ccure\u201d their ballots.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-wahfont=\"15\"><em>When signatures don\u2019t match and election workers can\u2019t reach the voters, they simply disregard the ballots and don\u2019t count them. According to data from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, 1,894 ballots were rejected in the 2020 general election in Arizona because election workers were unable to verify the signatures.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-wahfont=\"15\">The amendment passed on partisan lines, 31-29.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wahfont=\"15\"><span data-wahfont=\"15\">GOP State Rep. John Kavanagh said he hopes the bill will combat fraud.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wahfont=\"15\"><span data-wahfont=\"15\">\u201cThat is almost the biggest yellow flag for voter fraud that I can think of \u2014 the signatures don\u2019t match and you can\u2019t contact the voter. There\u2019s a chance there that that\u2019s a fraudulent ballot. And that should be investigated,\u201d said Kavanagh. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to claim there\u2019s no fraud in early ballots if you never look for fraud, even when it may be staring you right in the face.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wahfont=\"15\"><span data-wahfont=\"15\">State House Minority Leader Reginald Bolding, a Democrat, said the amendment perpetuates the \u201cBig Lie\u201d that voter fraud is changing outcomes of elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-wahfont=\"15\"><span data-wahfont=\"15\">\u201cThis idea is simply predicated on one thing, which is to chase and continue to utilize this \u2018Big Lie\u2019 that, somehow, someplace, we have these fraudulent ballots that are changing the outcome of elections,\u201d said Bolding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-76 Component-p-0-2-67\">Alternatively, Kavanagh <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/arizona-election-recounts-house-elections-elections-government-and-politics-83d007ac986f6095ed227ee788752057\">contended<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cWe don\u2019t know what the scope of the problem is because right now nobody investigates potentially fraudulent ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1624454591526000&#038;usg=AFQjCNHDj3LtBlEehT-ylPy90x6RTWA0qg\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona House Republicans on Monday advanced two measures related to election integrity.One of the measures, which passed in the House and still needs Senate approval, bumps the recount threshold to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280943,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1229319801.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Arizona GOP Advances Two Election Integrity Bills","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1229319801.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Arizona GOP Advances Two Election Integrity Bills","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570192","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}