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Dear Peter,

Spring has sprung, and we at Voters First Arizona are back with some regularly scheduled content for you all.

From updates on the ongoing legislative session, an important history lesson, and some interesting new research, we’ve got all of the information you need to know about the movement to put voters first in the Copper State.

1. A look back at Arizona’s history of self governance 

Arizonans aren’t ones to let politics get in the way of good policy — especially when those policies flow through the state’s very popular ballot initiative process. Over the last few decades, Arizona citizens have come together when the state’s education system needed it to pass critical education funding initiatives.

But because we can’t have nice things, our elected officials are now working to take that ability away from us — raising the threshold from a simple majority to 60%.

In our latest blog, we take a look back at Arizonans history of self governance and about the new challenges lawmakers are attempting to put in our way. Read our full blog here. 

2. Arizonans Support Vote at Home

Odds are, as an Arizonan, you yourself have either voted at home, or know someone who votes at home. And odds are, you support your fellow citizens’ right to vote at home. How do we know this? A new poll.

A recent poll from Arizona Public Opinion Pulse found that 74% of Arizonans support voting at home, with just 10% saying they oppose it. It’s wild, then, that over the last two years, there have been multiple attempts to repeal or otherwise eliminate our vote at home policies (including, but not limited to, HB2289 which is currently being debated in the Senate).

Arizonans have been and will continue to be clear: they like to vote at home. Elected leaders should take note.

3. New Research from the Sutherland Institute

Finally, if the overwhelming popularity of vote at home was not enough to sway our elected leaders, then check out this new research from the Sutherland Institute.

Researchers at the conservative Utah-based think tank found that “(1) vote by mail does not, on average, create electoral advantages for either political party, (2) vote by mail has a modest impact on overall voter turnout, and (3) vote by mail is not associated with significant, widespread voter fraud.”

It’s almost as if the attempts to repeal vote at home have nothing to do with voter fraud at all…

Thanks for reading. As always, feel free to drop a line with any thoughts.

Best,

Voters First Arizona Team

VotersFirstAZ.org

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