By Caitlin Sievers | AZ Mirror
Republican legislators want to ask voters to trade convenience and access for faster election results, but they’re likely headed for an intraparty fight over how exactly to do that.
Republicans in both the Arizona House of Representatives and Senate introduced mirror resolutions this year that would amend the state constitution to make numerous changes to voter requirements, deadlines and how elections are run. But the amended version of Senate Concurrent Resolution 1001 that passed along party lines Tuesday did not include a requirement for all voters to provide state-issued identification as they cast their ballot, something that the resolution’s sponsor in the House described as “non-negotiable.”
Before Republicans voted to pass House Concurrent Resolution 2001 last week, its sponsor Rep. Alexander Kolodin, R-Scottsdale, took Republicans in the Senate to task for their plan to remove ID requirements from their version.
Arizonans who vote in person at a polling site are already required to show identification before they are given a ballot, but early voters aren’t required to do so because their signatures are verified by elections workers. Voters in the Grand Canyon State must also provide documented proof of citizenship when they register.
