
Just moments ago in the Arizona State House of Representatives the members failed to pass HB2090 on reconsideration.
HB2090 would require all county recorders to notify anyone who mailed in a early ballot that was not being counted due to the fact signatures did not match. There are many people, especially senior citizens, who registered to vote many years ago and since registering their signatures have changed. If they ordered an early ballot and signed not exactly the same , the ballots are not counted. In some counties the only notification is on a website. Many senior do not have access to the Internet and most people do not check to see if their ballot was counted.
Representative Rick Murphy made a very interesting comment while pushing to pass this bill "Many think that Republicans don't care if every vote is counted, looking at this board ( in reference to the house board that monitors members votes) the opposite is the cases."
The vote came out 25 "ayes" and 33 "nays". Most of the "No" votes coming from Democrats. However a few moderate Republicans (Kirkpatrick, McClure, Tobbin, Konopnicki, Hershberger, and Burns) voted with the Democrats
I believe that these legislators don't want these votes counted due to the well known fact that a higher percentage of early ballots voter are conservative. As we have seen in many races just a few votes could turn the tides. Dems and Moderate Republicans could lose their seat if this were to get through.
But will we ever see a story like this in the main media?
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