Arizona's Push To Limit Mail-In Voting — And What It Reveals About Voting Rights Nationwide

Georgia's new election law isn't the only major voting change in the works. We look at efforts in Arizona to limit how people vote by mail.

Jeremy Duda, associate editor at the Arizona Mirror. Author of "If This Be Treason." (@jeremyduda)

Michelle Ugenti-Rita, Arizona state senator. (@MichelleUgenti)

Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst. (@JackBeattyNPR)

Bertrall Ross, professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. (@Bertrall_Ross)

Randy Perez, program director at the Voting Rights Lab. (@perez4az)

NBC: "Arizona Republicans push new laws to limit mail voting" — "Arizona Republicans are proposing drastic changes to its mail voting systems, a move that echoes the flurry of election restrictions advanced in GOP-controlled legislatures in a number of states after former President Donald Trump's election loss."

The Atlantic: "The Republican Party’s Irrational War on Voting Rights" — "Republican legislators insist that they’re merely responding to the righteous indignation of their voters as they pursue a raft of new rules that would make voting more difficult. 'When you have this many constituents that are emailing us and calling us and demanding that their questions be answered, it always should be a top priority,' Karen Fann, the president of the [Arizona] state Senate, told the Los Angeles Times. 'If that’s what’s important to our voters, we take care of it.'"

AZ Central: "Arizona has suppressed Black, Latino and Native American voters for more than a century" — "The [Voting Rights Act] recognized that race-based voter suppression was more prominent in some areas of the country, so it created a formula to identify those areas and impose stricter remedies.

"Any state or locality that maintained a 'test or device,' such as a literacy test, that restricted voting registration or voting and had a voter registration of less than 50% was subject to those remedies [...] From the start, Arizona was on that list."