By Rachel Leingang and Hank Stephenson Arizona Agenda Candidates who would have overturned the 2020 election results could hold top offices in Arizona during the 2024 presidential election.
Willingness to overturn the results of an election is no longer a fringe ideology relegated to the dark corners of the internet . It’s become among the most popular positions within the Republican Party — so popular, in fact, that few Republicans have been willing to flat-out say they wouldn’t have overturned the 2020 election.
“Insider threat is the thing I’m most concerned about coming up in future elections,” Ken Matta, who oversaw Arizona’s election security for two decades under both parties, told the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission at a recent meeting. 'Now I need to save the world’Ralph Neas, the special counsel on voting rights for progressive think tank The Century Foundation, first talked with us last August, when he warned that the Maricopa County audit was designed to sow doubt in elections in advance of 2024. If anything, he said, his comments then were understated.
But poll workers generally believe in the democratic process of casting ballots. They’re typically longtime local do-gooders who see poll work as a civic duty. “A lot of these applications are coming through say, ‘I want to be a poll worker. I’m 65, I have never been a poll worker, but now I need to save the world,’” she said. “It’s really interesting.”
Unlike partisan observers, election workers are county employees, and have a responsibility to do the work in a nonpartisan fashion. If they have nefarious intentions, they can cause a lot of damage. Even a small act of sabotage, like hiding an extension cord, could create chaos, Marra said. Robert Montgomery, the Cochise County Republican Party chairman, demanded “at least 50%” of election workers in the county be Republicans, and warned if not, there will be “rage and massive distrust,” according to a log of their communications. Marra responded that that’s not how the law works — state law requires some positions be filled by people in opposing parties, but contains no overall quota of how many election workers have to be Republicans.
Who’s going to stop them considering the right-wing inmates are running the legislative asylum?
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