89% of ballots in Arizona were cast by mail or drop box, totaling over 3 million votes. Policy changes Arizona secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem has backed would have eliminated voting by mail for most of those voters.
rian Fontes said Republican Mark Finchem wants to make it harder for many Arizonans to cast their ballots.
"Mr. Finchem wants to strip Arizona’s citizens of their capacity to vote by mail," Fontes said in the"I support absentee ballot voting," Finchem said."I do not support the idea of sending ballots to people who have not requested it." We examined Finchem’s legislative record and found that changes he has backed would have altered the voting options for millions of Arizonans.More than 20 years ago, the state was an early adopter in allowing people to vote by mail without providing specific excuses, such as being out of state. In 2007, the state built on that policy by giving voters the option to put their names on a permanent early voter list. The state would automatically send these voters a ballot each election.
In 2021, the state tightened the rules and created what it now called the Active Early Voter List. Voters who failed to vote at least once in two consecutive two-year election cycles would fall off that list., in the 2020 election, 89% of ballots in Arizona were cast by mail or drop box. That represented more than 3 million votes.in 2016 by the Pew Research Center found that Arizona led the country with the most ballots cast by mail in states that offered"no-excuse" absentee voting.
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