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They'll probably show up anyway, whether or not Arizona state law allows it.
Can't they just show on a road to the voting station?
This is because activists would have filibustered it. I live in Arizona and watched the whole thing happen. They kept moving hearing dates/times.
What kind of support did they have to pass something this blatantly unconstitutional? Just surrendering sovereignity to a federal government openly planning on fixing elections? Like it's not gerrymandered, not by the legislature I hear it's still not fair but it's better than most red states, but do they control all branches of government? Can the state senate filibuster without a majority?
I don't know. I kind of just watched.
Beautiful.
I always vote early, since Covid. And am thinking to show up on the day, in case it’s helpful.
Wow, what is the state government there? They had an ungerrymander ballot intitiative some like 10 years back or something, but I've heard it's still biased in favor of republicans, both by design and just naturally all democratic districts are naturally packed in big cities and the republicans control seemingly all of the countryside nationwide.
But this is so blatant, it's hard to believe anyone would have the gall to propose such a thing, you have a bill to invite armed federal agents to oversee the vote count a sovereign state is conducting? I don't think that would even be constitutional even if their legislature did pass it. States run elections, and putting armed fed agents at polls would interfere with the ability to vote.
It's obviously not constitutional but with some of the apeshit stuff that has been getting pass or sign as "executive orders", someone figured why not add more garbage on the trash pile
Suck it, ICEHoles!
Hell yeah love to see it.