Opinion: I’m leading the fight for voting rights in Arizona. We need the Senate to step up, now.
Opinion by Katie Hobbs
June 15, 2021 at 2:00 a.m. GMT+3
Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, is Arizona’s secretary of state. She is running for governor in 2022.
PHOENIX — Democracy is under siege in Arizona. As part of the “big lie” that Republicans have been pushing about electoral fraud, they’re conducting an “audit” in our largest county, Maricopa, to dig up nonexistent evidence. It’s an absurd spectacle. The proliferation of conspiracy theories is staggering: ballots are being disqualified because of Sharpies; ballots were shipped in from China; ballots were burned in a chicken-farm fire.
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Voter-suppression efforts in Arizona are part of a nationwide dismantling of voting rights — the most sustained and egregious assault on U.S. democracy since the Jim Crow era. I am taking what steps I can to fight back on a local level. But I cannot succeed without help from Congress. Please, act decisively and pass the For the People Act. We are running out of time.
Full article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/14/arizona-secretary-state-voting/