By Laura Gómez | Arizona Mirror
Republicans called it an “intergrity bill,” one would increase transparency and stop “voter registration fraud” and incompetent people who don’t fill out voter registration forms correctly, while Democrats called it a solution in search of a problem, one grounded on a conspiracy that will result in less people being engaged in registering people to vote.
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The proposal, House Bill 2373 — introduced by Rep. Tim Dunn, R-Yuma — would require every person and group that registers people to vote to get a unique identifier number from the county recorder if they submit more than 25 voter registration forms in a calendar year. The groups or people then have to place their unique identification numbers on every voter registration form they submit.
The bill cleared the House Government and Elections Committee Feb. 17 on a party-line vote, with Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed.
Groups that for years have helped thousands of people to register to vote like the League of Women Voters, Sierra Club and Living United for Change in Arizona told lawmakers they opposed HB2373.
