Arizona House approves resolution ending Election Day ballot drop-offs
A Republican state legislator who portrays himself as the election-reform champion that voters demanded — and hopes to be the state’s top elections officer — has had it with Republicans in the Arizona Senate who think his early voting resolution needs amending.
Rep. Alexander Kolodin, R-Scottsdale, loudly and scathingly took Senate Republicans to task on Monday before the state House of Representatives voted along party lines to pass his House Concurrent Resolution 2001, which would make it much harder to vote by mail in the Grand Canyon State.
“For two years, certain Republicans in the Senate have played a game of cat-and-mouse in bad faith, requesting an ever-changing list of demands and begging us to chase the ball,” Kolodin said on the House floor. “Today, this body says, ‘No more.’ The House will deliver for the people of Arizona, and if recalcitrant members of the majority in the Senate do not wish to do so, then let them stand up and let their votes be counted.”
Kim Quintero, a spokeswoman for the Senate Republican Caucus, told the Arizona Mirror that the Republican leaders in the Senate did not see Kolodin’s comments. She declined to comment on the disagreement between the chambers.
https://azmirror.com/2026/02/09/arizona-house-approves-resolution-ending-election-day-ballot-drop-offs/
