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By Bill Goodykoontz || Arizona Republic
Arizona’s 2022 midterm election dominated screens for months, locally and nationally.
You couldn’t turn on a football game without sitting through a raft of political commercials, each seemingly more belligerent and misleading than the last. TV, social media, podcasts, newspaper websites, parody websites, late-night monologues — Arizona seemed to be everywhere, all the time, with much of the coverage centered on the head-spinning fact that Republicans were running a slate of election deniers for the state’s top offices.
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It was a lot.
Which is why it’s kind of ironic that a short, glitchy little YouTube video on Monday was more important than any of the rest of it.
That video was a live stream of the canvassing of Arizona’s election, when officials put the state’s seal of approval on the results. It’s a routine step in the election process but, like everything else, has taken on greater importance in the face of baseless claims of fraud and cheating.
Now the election is official.
It’s official:Katie Hobbs certifies 2022 Arizona election in ceremony at Capitol
Video of Arizona’s election certification looked like it was shot on an iPhone
