While voters rejected Kari Lake and other Republican candidates for statewide office who touted election conspiracy theories, they sent several others to the state Capitol.
Some of those conspiracy-touting state legislators are set to be in major positions of power, including overseeing committees that will soon pass legislation aimed at the election systems they’ve said can’t be trusted.
Election denialism has become a major part of Republican politics, with 60% of Americans having an election denialist on their ballot earlier this month, despite there being no proof of voter fraud. In Arizona, those candidates were loud and prevalent — and some were major players in the national election denialism stage.
State Sen. Wendy Rogers, R-Flagstaff, was easily reelected. She has built a national profile as one of the most prominent voices pushing false claims about the 2020 election, and now the 2022 election.
Newly elected Senate President Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, last week appointed Rogers to oversee the Senate Elections Committee, where she will decide which bills are considered.
Rogers, who led tours of the Arizona Senate’s partisan “audit” to a litany of out-of-state lawmakers and other special guests, has spread spurious claims about the election to her thousands of followers, often leading to election officials having to respond in official capacities.
The Flagstaff Republican is also known for her associations with white nationalists, such as Nick Fuentes. The young...
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