11 Substantial Election Integrity Bills Were Signed into Law Last Year in Arizona; So Far This Year, Only One

A couple of Republican legislators have been holding up election integrity bills from passing this year, but considerable groundwork was laid last year. The Arizona Legislature pushed hard to get 11 of these bills passed in 2021, in large part due to concern there was fraud in the 2020 presidential election. So far this year, Gov. Doug Ducey has only signed one election integrity bill into law, and an inside source at the state capitol told The Arizona Sun Times the legislature may wrap up this year’s session as soon as Friday.

Along with a list of last year’s successful bills provided to Republican Briefs, State Senator Vince Leach (R-Tucson) said, “For those of you who think that our legislature did nothing for election security, here are the actual bills passed this [past] session. … The rest will have to wait until we have a larger majority.”

State Rep. Jake Hoffman (R-Queen Creek), who was responsible for three of the most important bills that passed last year, and the only one Ducey has signed this year, added in a statement to the Sun Times, “While many signature reforms have been signed into law, the work to secure our elections is never finished and we intend to come back in 2023 with stronger Republican majorities to continue doing the work of the People on this critically important issue.”

This year, Republicans have such a narrow majority in both chambers of the Arizona Legislature that if just one Republican defects on either side, voting with the Democrats, it is enough to stop Republican election integrity bills from passing. Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R-Mesa) blocked several of this year’s bills in the House, and State Senator Paul Boyer (R-Glendale) blocked even more in the Senate. Boyer is not running for re-election, but Bowers, who is term-limited, is running for the Senate.

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