Another Leftist Attempt to Rewrite Election Rules Goes Down in Flames

Another left-wing attempt to rewrite election rules has gone down in flames. This time, liberals attempted to put a measure on the November ballot to gut election safeguards and skew voting rules in the influential swing state.

But if the left thought it could buy its way onto the ballot, it was wrong. In its rush to “save democracy,” the group pushing the measure—euphemistically named Arizonans for Free and Fair Elections—failed to follow state law.

That’s why a coalition of groups committed to preserving election integrity came together to challenge that effort in court. On Friday, the Arizona Supreme Court agreed: Proponents did not turn in enough legal signatures to qualify for the ballot.

Cue the predictable liberal anger. Almost immediately the left began lashing out at Arizona’s courts for “suppressing democracy.”

In reality, liberal anger is far less principled and far more partisan. The 26-page initiative was a left-wing wish list of loose voting laws. The proposal gutted voter ID and eliminated safeguards against noncitizen voting.

Key protections for mail ballots would have been eliminated, and vote trafficking by political operatives would have been given the green light. It would even have raised taxes to fund politicians’ campaigns.

The measure took all the worst parts of HR 1, Democrats’ failed legislation to launch a federal takeover of elections, and brought them to Arizona.

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