Election certification refusals could gain legal protection under GOP proposal
Even after winning the presidential election and increasing their majorities in both chambers last fall, President Donald Trump and his GOP devotees in the Arizona Legislature are still preoccupied by conspiracy theories born out of Republican defeats in the 2020 and 2022 elections.
That fixation on unproven claims of fraud led to Trump’s executive order last week that would require numerous changes to how voter registration and elections work across the country. And Republicans are proposing multiple election law changes in Arizona, some based on the experiences of the state’s most notorious election denier, Kari Lake.
One proposed change awaiting a vote in the Arizona Senate is House Bill 2440, which would prohibit the attorney general from prosecuting members of a county board of supervisors if they refuse to certify election results.
The measure, sponsored by Rep. Rachel Keshel, R-Tucson, is meant to prevent what happened in Cochise and Mohave counties after the 2022 midterm, when members of both county boards — under intense pressure from GOP talking heads and community members — delayed results certification. State statute requires county boards to certify election results, and the Mohave County Board of Supervisors did so after a delay in protest of how the election was run in Maricopa County.
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