Key AZ GOPer Introduces Bill To Make Trump-Like Election Reversal Plots Easier

PHOENIX, AZ - NOVEMBER 7, 2020: Thousands of pro-Trump supporters attend a Stop The Steal rally just hours after Joe Biden was named President-elect on November 7, 2020 at the State Capitol in Phoenix, Arizona. (... PHOENIX, AZ - NOVEMBER 7, 2020: Thousands of pro-Trump supporters attend a Stop The Steal rally just hours after Joe Biden was named President-elect on November 7, 2020 at the State Capitol in Phoenix, Arizona. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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It would be much easier for Arizona’s legislature to try to overturn the results of a presidential election under a bill introduced by a key Republican in the statehouse this week.

The legislation would give state legislators the authority, by a majority vote, to “revoke” the state certification of the presidential election in the state. Such a subversion of the democratic process was exactly what President Trump was pushing for in Arizona and other battleground states that elected Joe Biden.

Trump’s maneuverings — which included arm twisting state legislators and pressuring election officials to make bogus claims about fraud — were ultimately not successful. State Republican legislative leaders in states like Pennsylvania said that they did not believe they had the authority to do what Trump was seeking, which was to reject the Biden electors from the state and put forward Trump electors instead.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) was attacked by Trump for certifying Biden’s win there.

The new Arizona bill — which was introduced by state Rep. Shawnna Bolick, the chair of the Ways and Means committee — would create a glide path for executing a Trump-like scheme for overturning the state’s election results. It says that the vote on revoking the certification of the results could happen anytime before the inauguration and does not require any rationale for undoing the certification.

“The legislature may take action pursuant to this subsection without any regard to whether the legislature is in regular or special session or has held committee or other hearings on the matter,” the bill says.

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  1. Very useful for a future Democrat legislature to reverse the results of an election which mysteriously returned a Republican majority!

  2. When I was growing up I was taught in school that despite all America’s challenges the country was about small d democracy. What the hell happened? Fox News yelling fire in a crowded theater? I think so, 25 years of it.

  3. The new Arizona bill — which was introduced by state Rep. Shawnna Bolick, the chair of the Ways and Means committee…

    Her husband, Clint, is an AZ supreme court justice.

  4. Just more evidence that Republicans are going to give up on democracy and try to force a Republican president on us in 2024. That election is going to be very dangerous for the future of the nation…if there are real efforts to overturn the election again, the Republicans will bring people who actually know what they are doing next time and may be able to make it stick. The only way to avoid that is to spend the next two years reforming the voting system so that everyone can vote freely, and then get every person possible to vote for the Democrats; just figuring that things will work out isn’t an option anymore.

    It really could be that serious, the states that will make the decision will again be controlled by a lot of Republicans, they can cheat if they have the space. Democrats need to hold the line in the midterm elections, they have to have people in place to block these kinds of things.

  5. When you can’t win, it’s Calvinball time.

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