The individuals that may be removed, are individuals who have shown or have demonstrated that they don't prefer that preference. They're not voting by mail, so you can not take something away from someone that somebody is not doing.

Michelle Ugenti-Rita

Think about it. It’s election season and you’ve taken upon yourself to perhaps knock on someone’s door or multiple doors and collect their ballot with, I’m assuming, the intent to turn the ballot into the ballot box, but, in the event that doesn’t happen, regardless of why it doesn’t happen, you can see it that that has (an) impact on…that person’s ballot to the election box. But, then also on the outcome. So, it’s not a practice that really has enough benefit to justify continuing to have it. So, that’s why I sponsored the bill and the court agreed that it was within our statutory and constitutional authority.

Michelle Ugenti-Rita

Elections are critical and the outcome of an election is important and people have to have confidence in the outcome of an election, the best way to kind of effect your government is at the election box. So, election integrity is something that we have to safeguard. It doesn’t make sense to allow a practice to exist that has the potential to increase fraud and undermine the outcome of election or that confidence in the election process.

Michelle Ugenti-Rita

In Arizona mail-in balloting is very popular, but as you can see a lot of the bills deal with mail-in ballots because mail-in ballots do lend themselves to being exposed to a lot of unintended consequences.

Michelle Ugenti-Rita