Rep. Walt Blackman called on his fellow lawmakers on Tuesday to “not use black people as an argument to get a darn bill passed,” during the debate on Michelle Ugenti-Rita election integrity bill.
Holy shit
Republican Rep. @Blackman1Walter drops the mic & slams Dems for try to inflame racial divisions.
“Jim Crow ended in 1965 … I would ask that, as we go forward, we don’t use black people as as an argument to get a darn bill passed.” #AZLEG
Listen –> pic.twitter.com/madImxWGer
— Brian Anderson (@AZBrianAnderson) April 20, 2021
Ugenti-Rita’s bill, SB1485, would remove a person from the early voter list who does not vote by mail in 2 consecutive primary and 2 consecutive general elections from the early vote-by-mail list unless they return a notice within 30 days from the county indicating they would like to remain.
I look forward to supporting SB1485 in the Senate. It’s NOT unreasonable to send a notice to a PEVL voter after NOT voting in FOUR consecutive elections and confirming their intent to remain on PEVL. The hyperbole surrounding this bill is disgusting & offensive to POC like myself https://t.co/tLTfGLYtyM
— T.J. Shope (@TJShopeforAZ) April 21, 2021
There is considerable support for Sen. Shope’s positive take on the bill. In fact, a recent poll shows that a majority of Arizona voters support election integrity reforms with big majorities in favor of voter ID laws.
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The poll found that more than 80% of Arizona voters support requiring all voters to provide identification in order to vote, with 70% strongly supporting this requirement. Even a large majority of Democrats, 69%, support the idea of requiring all voters to provide ID prior to voting.