Another election has arrived and once again Arizona has shown the country that it doesn’t know how to count the votes. Like a bad movie, we are forced to watch every two years. The ramp-delayed delay in processing early voting has been waiting for voters to find out who has won a key state race for over a week.

From major media outlets to national experts, almost everyone across the country who has seen the wreckage of our slow-motion enumeration trains agreed that the revision of Arizona’s tally process has been long behind.

That is, excludes Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs and her partisan Democratic allies in Congress.

This should not be a complete shock for those who have followed previous attempts to reform our election system. Over the past few years, Democrats have opposed general election reforms, including requiring that they vote for basic evidence of citizenship, but millions of people have illegally poured their southern borders. It was there. They opposed the common sense voter ID law, claiming that our elections are safe and secure without it (and California Democrats ban voter IDs (Completely).

And now, after Arizona has once again become one of the last states to close the voting process, Democrats continue to oppose ensuring election night results.

So, what are the Democrats’ excuses? Strangely, Hobbes omitted the mention of amending a broken electoral system in her state speech. Her allies in Congress relied on calling demands for election night outcomes when pressed for the issue “Made-made Crisis.”

Arizona becomes a laughing matter in the country, and it seems Arizona Democrats want to keep it that way.

If they want to represent a minority in Fringe who doesn’t care how badly our elections work, then it’s their choice. But the rest of us want reform, and that’s what our organization is fighting in the state legislature.

At the top of the list, it moves the current deadline for returning early votes. Currently, all Arizona voters are eligible to receive email-in votes, and those votes may be returned at any time until 7pm on Election Day. The problem with this system is that votes returned within the past few days cannot be processed and tallied by election night. In this past election, hundreds of thousands of votes were dropped on Election Day, delaying the processing of the results a week.

Simply set a deadline on the Friday before the election and this delay will be eliminated immediately. Voters will take more than three weeks to fill out the ballot and return it by mail or drop it off in the county. And voters can still vote in person – early and election day.

And if we want to add even easier access, security to the process, the silver bullet is the site tally of voting at the voting location. Do you need an accessible election? Enables on-site aggregation. Want a safe election? Enables on-site aggregation. Do you need efficient election results? Enables on-site aggregation. It is beneficial to both voters and to the nation.

Voters who enjoy the convenience of filling out their votes at their own time can continue. But if they don’t want to leave it to the post office to do their vote, and if they don’t want to drop it, or if they don’t take it down by Friday’s cutoff, they can show up at the polling location And they tally their own votes. This means that more voters will show their ID before casting the vote, which means their votes will be tallied soon.

These reforms have proven to work in other states, such as Florida. And they should not be new ideas for lawmakers or Hobbs because they are ideas that our organization has. It has been advertised for years.

There are opportunities to increase access, increase security and increase election efficiency. In other words, we are finally no longer a national laughing matter in the next election, and everything can come. The question is, will the Democrats and Hobbs in Arizona be in the way?

Greg Blacky is Deputy Director of Policy at the Arizona Free Enterprise Club

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