Election irregularities have haunted Maricopa County, Ariz. for the past ten years, raising doubts about the legitimacy of a number of elections, including the 2020 presidential election, where Biden's state-certified victory was a tiny fraction of the overall vote, and again in 2022 in the election between Katie Hobbs and Kari Lake.
Republicans in Arizona - and other states with election issues - have sought to reform the state's elections to help ensure that everyone in the state can feel confident that results were conducted fairly.
Democrats have aggressively opposed the efforts and on Friday, Hobbs vetoed several bills from the GOP-controlled legislature - including four bills that would make elections more transparent.
Senate Bill 1105, which suggested permitting election personnel to tally early ballots at polling locations on Election Day, was likewise declined.
Hobbs's veto decisions come in the wake of Kari Lake's recent announcement that her organization, Save Arizona, plans to carry out the most extensive ballot-chasing endeavor in the state's history during the upcoming 2024 election cycle.
"We have been working nonstop to put together a team and we are officially launching the largest most extensive ballot-chasing operation in our state's history and, frankly, possibly in American history. The courts just ruled that this corrupt election will stay up. The courts just ruled that our elections can run lawlessly. The courts have ruled that anything goes. Well, we can play by those same rules, okay? If anything goes, then anything goes."
Winning elections and taking back the state government appears to be the only way elections in Arizona can be cleaned up and the will of the people can be implemented.
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