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Fresh Off The Phony Audit, Arizona GOP Legislators Have Big Plans For 2022

PHOENIX, AZ - NOVEMBER 05: Votes wait to be counted, center, by staff at the Maricopa County Elections Department office on November 5, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona. Ballots continue to be counted in many critical battle... PHOENIX, AZ - NOVEMBER 05: Votes wait to be counted, center, by staff at the Maricopa County Elections Department office on November 5, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona. Ballots continue to be counted in many critical battleground states as the final results in the U.S. presidential election remain too close to call. (Photo by Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images) MORE LESS

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January 31, 2022 4:15 p.m.

Arizona Republicans, despite an embarrassing “audit” of the 2020 election results and the national mockery that followed, are back at it: The new legislative session has shown that the state will, once again, be at the forefront of the effort to restrict voting rights and champion the lie that 2020’s results were somehow tainted.

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