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Canvassing efforts to examine the legitimacy of voter ballots for the 2020 presidential election could be illegal, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, a New York-based policy institute, but that hasn’t stopped Liz Harris.
Harris, who lost a race for the state Legislature in November, is the mastermind behind the “Voter Integrity Project,” an ongoing canvassing effort that began in December.
Last weekend a couple dozen volunteers out to prove former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election gathered in Queen Creek. Using a mobile app that provides names, addresses and publicly available voting information of registered voters, volunteers set out to ask voters questions such as, “Can you verify the voters registered to this address?” and “Did you vote by mail or in person?”
Senate President Karen Fann, R-Prescott, in early May canceled the official door-knocking plan that was a part of Cyber Ninjas’ proposal for work after the U.S. Department of Justice warned it might constitute voter intimidation.
Harris denies ties between the Arizona Senate-led audit of the 2020 Maricopa County election and canvassing events like the one in Queen Creek.
In this week’s episode of The Gaggle, an Arizona politics podcast, co-hosts Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Ron Hansen are joined by Republic state politics reporter Ray Stern – who tagged along with volunteers and wrote an in-depth story earlier this week – to discuss inside efforts to canvass Maricopa County voters.
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