A May 24 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claimed a key battleground state is making a major change to its election protocol.
“The Arizona state legislature banned electronic voting machines for all future federal elections,” reads the post.
It was shared nearly 900 times in less than a week. A similar version of the claim was shared more than 850 times.
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The state’s legislature passed a "concurrent resolution" in March that seeks to ban electronic voting systems unless they meet certain criteria, but the resolution wasn't signed by the governor and does not have the force of law. Arizona state law still allows electronic voting systems to be used in elections, and changing that would require the legislature to pass a bill and the governor to sign it into law, experts say. There's no precedent allowing the legislature to unilaterally ban electronic voting in this manner.
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