Arizona GOPer Compares Not Letting Legislature Throw Out Election Results To Lynching

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Not giving a state legislature the power to freely throw out election results as it pleases is similar to mob murder, according to the Arizona state Republican who sponsored a bill to give the legislature that power.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1403944
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Stick around, kids. For his encore, he’s gonna compare it to the Holocaust.

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What is 1958-style voting? What’s wrong with 2022-style voting?

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Because one is a violent hate crime murder and the other is one of the core bases of a democratic republic.

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How exactly do you lynch a vote?

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Who knew Rusty Bowers was part of the woke lynching mob?

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Picky. Picky…

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Is that like what a hanging chad is?

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Then, the flouridation of the water supply.

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Lol well played.

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“Childrens’ ice cream, Mandrake.”

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Not giving a state legislature the power to freely throw out election results as it pleases is similar to mob murder.

“Yeah. Tell me about.” said Jimmy Hoffa.

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Desperate people do (and say) desperate things. Stupid people do (and say) stupid things. Criminally minded people do (and say) criminally minded things.

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1958 style of voting means Whites only

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Also, can we just take a minute to appreciate the organizational jujutsu here?

that Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R) had effectively sunk his bill by assigning it to all 12 House committees for consideration.

That’s the kind of legislative close combat that would have brought a smile to LBJ’s face.

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Must be a hanging chad reference. Otherwise, I got nothing.

ETA: And I see @rickjones beat me to it. Apologies for not reading through the thread first.

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Yeah, that choice of 1958 … so what, exactly, changed after that point, I wonder?

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“More than a dozen” others support this bill? You can’t spell crazy without R AZ.

ETA. And now we can c y.

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Great minds and all (and for me, an occasionally functioning mind).

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He was asked in an interview by a local television station about what he meant by “1958-style voting.” He said that mail-in ballots absent voter ID was the largest source of fraud in the last election. The report pointed out that several election audits have detected no large-scale election fraud in Arizona.

Combine that with his lynching comment and, yes, he’s just a big fat white racist with a walrus mustache.

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