{"id":13801,"date":"2021-03-26T14:25:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13801"},"modified":"2021-03-26T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T23:59:30","slug":"az-sos-decries-dangerous-unprecedented-republican-efforts-to-roll-back-voting-rights-bradcast-3262021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13801","title":{"rendered":"AZ SoS Decries ‘Dangerous’, ‘Unprecedented’ Republican Efforts to Roll Back Voting Rights: ‘BradCast’ 3\/26\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had planned for NICOLE SANDLER<\/a> to fill in for us on today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, to share her exclusive interview this week with Arizona’s Democratic Secretary of State. Unfortunately, Nicole got hit pretty hard after her second COVID vaccine shot, so she’s been a bit under the weather (but getting much better!). However, she was kind enough to share the interview with us anyway so we could share it with you<\/i> on today’s program. [Audio link to full show follows below.<\/i>] <\/p>\n

In her conversation with Nicole, AZ’s Sec. of State KATIE HOBBS<\/b>, among other things, debunks false claims of “fraud” in the Grand Canyon State’s successful 2020 Presidential election, where Joe Biden became the first Democrat to win the state on the Presidential level in several decades. The Grand Canyon State also elected Democrat Mark Kelly for the U.S. Senate last November. He joins AZ’s Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, mirroring the case in Georgia, which also went “blue” for the first time in decades last year for Biden and<\/i> elected two Dems to the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

On Thursday night, Georgia’s GOP rammed through sweeping new restrictions on voting that will curb voting rights and (as Brad discussed with Marilyn Marks of the Coalition for Good Governance earlier this week<\/a>) allow the GOP-majority state legislature to undermine County Boards of Elections and even overturn election results, if they like. GA’s former Republican Sec. of State and current Governor Brian Kemp signed the new anti-democracy measure last night<\/a> almost immediately after it was passed in the Peach State’s House and Senate at lightning speed on Thursday. Today, President Biden described the GA measure as an “atrocity”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On today’s program, Hobbs speaks to similar efforts now under way by Arizona’s GOP state lawmakers to roll back voting rights, including the state’s popular mail-in voting options, despite last year’s “very successful” election…or, perhaps, because<\/i> of it. Hobbs describes the measures being pushed by state Republicans as “unprecedented” and “really dangerous in terms of voting rights, not just in Arizona but across the country.”<\/p>\n

She tells Nicole that these efforts, being sold in response to Donald Trump’s evidence-free Big Lie that last year’s election was stolen for Biden, are based on “a false premise. We do not have to make the choice between voter access and security. What we saw in the 2020 election proves that we can have both.”<\/p>\n

Finally today, in case you missed it previously or might like to hear it again, we revisit Brad’s recent conversation from 3\/15\/2021<\/a> with Leon County, Florida’s legendary, 30-year former Supervisor of Elections ION SANCHO<\/strong> on similar GOP efforts to roll back voting rights in the Sunshine State and<\/i> in neighboring Georgia…<\/p>\n

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