The Arizona House Republicans issued a “2025 Majority Plan” this week, laying out their plans for this year’s legislative session. The conservative blueprint contains sections on securing elections, securing the border, protecting individual rights and liberties, economic prosperity, improving education, and streamlining government.
Under the direction of new House Speaker Steve Montenegro (R-Glendale) (pictured above), the plan to secure elections states, “Arizona voters deserve elections that are free, fair, and transparent. It shouldn’t take weeks to count ballots. We will protect the integrity of Arizona elections from anyone who chooses to tamper with them, and we will ensure that ballots are counted faster and results are known sooner.”
State Representative Alex Kolodin, an election attorney who was disciplined by the State Bar of Arizona for filing election lawsuits challenging the botched 2020 election, is heading up a new House Ad Hoc Committee on Election Integrity and Florida-Style Voting Systems. He is sponsoring a bill to speed up the ballot tabulation of Arizona’s elections, modeled after Florida law. Florida announces election results overnight after an election, whereas Arizona has come under criticism for taking up to two weeks due to lengthy signature verification on mail-in ballot affidavits.
HCR 2013 will “improve the accuracy, security, and efficiency of Arizona’s electoral process through measures such as enhanced address verification, early ballot ID numbers to replace signature verification, the elimination of late early ballots, and a prohibition on foreign funding in elections” Kolodin said in a press release. The Arizona Senate Judiciary and Elections Committee passed a similar bill styled after Florida law, SB 1011, with a 4-3 vote along party lines on Wednesday.
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