GREG BLACKIE: Arizona Still Can’t Properly Count Ballots — But State Dems Aren’t Lifting Finger To Help

Another election has come and gone, and once again Arizona showed the nation that it doesn’t know how to count votes. Like a bad movie we are forced to watch every two years, rampant delays in processing early ballots left voters waiting over a week to find out who won key races in the state.

Virtually everyone around the country watching our slow-motion election train wreck, from major media outlets to national pundits, agreed that fixing Arizona’s tabulation process is long overdue.

Everyone, that is, except Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and her partisan Democrat allies in the Legislature.

This shouldn’t be a total shock to those that have followed previous attempts to reform our election system. Over the last couple of years Democrats have opposed popular election reforms like requiring basic proof of citizenship to vote, all while millions were pouring in illegally through the southern border. They argued against commonsense voter ID laws, claiming our elections are safe and secure without it (and California democrats even banned voter ID outright). 

And now, after Arizona was again one of the last states to finish ballot processing, the Democrats remain opposed to ensuring we have election night results. 

So what’s the Democrats’ excuse? Curiously, Hobbs’ omitted any mention of fixing our broken election system in her state of the state address. Her allies in the Legislature, when pressed on the issue, have resorted to calling demands for election night results a  “manufactured crisis.”

Arizona has become the laughingstock of the country, and Arizona Democrats seemingly want to keep it that way. 

It’s their choice if they want to represent a fringe minority that doesn’t care how badly our elections operate. But the rest of us want reform, and that is what our organization is fighting for at the state Legislature.