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Opinion: Rep. Mark Finchem’s proposal to decertify Arizona’s 2020 presidential election should be dispatched to oblivion, as should his future political prospects.
By Laurie Roberts | Arizona Republic
Comes now the latest attempt to overthrow Arizona’s vote in the 2020 presidential election, brought to us by a guy who is actually hoping we will put him in charge of the state’s future elections.
No, seriously.
Republican Rep. Mark Finchem’s House Concurrent Resolution 2033 reads like a seven-page laundry list of imagined grievances and debunked conspiracy theories, topped off by a fantasy belief that the Arizona Legislature somehow has the power to decertify the results of the election in Maricopa, Pima and Yuma counties and recall the state’s 2020 presidential electors.
The real ones, I mean. Not the phony electors put forth by the state GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward and what could be her fellow co-conspirators.
Finchem claims the election is ‘irredeemable’
“The questions first raised over a year ago about the legitimacy of the 2020 General Election persist,” Finchem says, in a press release sent out on Monday by House Republicans. “Evidence and testimony collected since November 3, 2020, has reached the point of clear and convincing and is now in the hands of the Arizona Attorney General for action.”
The only thing clear and convincing is the fact that Attorney General Mark Brnovich is under tremendous pressure to indict someone (anyone?) in order to avoid the wrath of Trump as he campaigns for the Senate. But I digress.
Let’s get to Finchem’s resolution, which proclaims the election irredeemable. Several times.
“It is the justifiable position of the Arizona State Legislature,” it declares, “that we set aside the results of the Maricopa, Pima and Yuma County elections as irredeemably compromised and reclaim the 2020 Presidential Electors due to the irredeemably flawed nature of these elections that prevent the declaration of a clear winner of said presidential electors.”
