Disturbing Bill Would Let Arizona Legislators Ignore Election Results - eviltoast

An Arizona lawmaker who signed on to be a “fake elector” for Donald Trump after the former president lost his bid for a second term has introduced a bill that would allow members of the statehouse to overturn future election results that they don’t like.

The bill, formally known as Senate Concurrent Resolution 1014 and sponsored by state Sen. Anthony Kern, seeks to bypass the popular vote altogether.

“[I]t is the responsibility of the Arizona Secretary of State to certify elections, including elections for President of the United States, but the sole authority to appoint presidential electors is granted to the Legislature,” the four-line bill reads. Therefore, it concludes, “[T]he Legislature, and no other official, shall appoint presidential electors in accordance with the United States Constitution.”

Giving the legislature absolute power to control Arizona’s electoral college votes, regardless of who won the popular vote, would disenfranchise millions of Arizonans.

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    9 months ago

    My speech to text has a curse filter with just like a couple f****** words omitted, although I can still say like dick and twat, and like half the time it doesn’t notice s***, but I find it super funny whenever it bleeps something out so I’ve just left it on.

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      9 months ago

      Question: how do you compose such a long post (as above) with speech to text? Do you just have a masterful ability to dictate a point eloquently, first time, or do you have to go back and make edits manually afterwards?

      I noticed verbal fillers in your (presumably lower effort, as its shorter) response, but none so noticeable in your longer initial post- which surprises me if both were only dictated

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        I definitely go back and make manual edits of my posts, since I hate reading errors in comments for a number of reasons.

        I also want people to engage with these comments, so making them easier, or at least more clear, to read is probably a good way to go.