Arizona GOP Gov. Ducey Waits Simply One Hour to Signal Voter Suppression Invoice That Will Purge 140,000 Folks From Record

It took Arizona Republican governor Doug Ducey just an hour after the Senate passed a voter suppression bill to get it into law.

According to polling experts, SB1485 will remove 140,000 Arizona voters from permanent lists of people who will be mailed a postal ballot. 80% of Arizona voters vote by mail. The state has voted by mail for over two decades.

Breaking: The Arizona GOP Senate, which started some insane “trial,” just voted to remove 140,000 voters, including 30,000 Latinos, from the state’s permanent pre-election list. This means that they will no longer automatically receive postal ballot papers. # sb1485 now goes to Gov Ducey

– Ari Berman (@AriBerman) May 11, 2021

The new law changes the permanent early election list (PEVL) to a new name: the “Active Early Election List,” which requires voters to vote at least once over two election cycles (four years) ahead of time in order to remain on that list, “explains Democracy Docket. “Otherwise their names will be deleted from the list and they will no longer receive automatic postal voting slips.”

Democrats “fear that the new law disproportionately disenfranchises color voters, young people and other historically marginalized groups who depend on automatic postal voting to hear their votes.”