Latino Guy Delivers Absentee Ballots in Arizona. You’ll Never Guess What Happens Next.
This is the part where we explain that, as you might have guessed, the entire VOTER FRAUD! hysteria is thoroughgoing bullshit. As it turns out, Mr. LaFaro has long had a wee bit of a problem with Citizens For a Better Arizona, (CBA) a progressive group that grew out of the successful 2011 effort to recall former state Senate president Russell Pearce, the architect of Arizona’s “papers please” immigration law. Since that victory, the group has also tried, unsuccessfully, to launch a recall of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. LaFaro is a close ally of Arpaio and does not like progressive activists who work to get the wrong people involved in politics. In a 2013 Tempe Tea Party email, LaFaro called backers of the Arpaio recall drive, including CBA leader Randy Parraz, “domestic terrorists” and reminded readers, “These are the same thugs who wrongfully recalled Russell Pearce.” It seems there’s a pretty low bar for what constitutes thuggery in LaFaro’s very active imagination.
Also, big surprise, what LaFaro witnessed in August was a perfectly routine, completely legal part of early voting under Arizona law — and LaFaro damned well knows it. Citizens for a Better Arizona, like several other political groups in the state, including the state GOP, helps collect and deliver absentee ballots from voters: one voter, one ballot. The Arizona Elections Manual is quite clear about the legality of this:
After they have securely sealed the voted ballot inside the early ballot return envelope, voters may voluntarily give their voted early ballot to a person of their choice for delivery to the Recorder or a polling place. The designated person shall not tamper with the envelope or the ballot and shall not deliberately fail to deliver the ballot to the Recorder or a polling place within the voter’s county of residence.
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