The modern anti-democratic GOP is running amok

In the chaotic race to finalize a nearly $40 billion state budget, Arizona Republicans are moving to reverse a voter-approved ballot measure that would impose special excise taxes on the wealthy.

They’re also trying to undermine the secretary of state’s authority to administer and defend elections.

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[T]he two measures are part of an emerging trend in Republican-dominated state legislatures across the country, and they’re raising questions about what happens when a party that loses an election refuses to honor the will of the voters.

After recent election losses at the state level, Republican legislatures have moved to restrict the power of the voters who delivered those defeats, either by limiting access to the polls, curtailing the authority of the incoming party or by ignoring the results of direct initiatives.

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Republican officials and activists in both Wisconsin and Georgia have taken steps in recent days to emulate Arizona, where the GOP-controlled state Senate is conducting what it calls an audit of more than 2.1 million ballots cast last year in Maricopa County. T

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In the weeks after the 2018 midterm elections, Wisconsin legislators passed measures limiting a governor’s authority over a lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act and the state’s economic development agency. Former Gov. Scott Walker (R), who had lost his reelection bid, signed the measures that hamstrung his successor, Democrat Tony Evers, from fulfilling campaign promises.

Georgia legislators became the first of a handful of states to pass a sweeping package of election law reforms this year, after President Biden narrowly carried the state in 2020. Critics say the new statutes will limit access to the ballot box.

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In Missouri, Gov. Mike Parson (R) has abandoned a bid to fund Medicaid expansion after lawmakers refused to fund additional coverage for those making less than 138 percent of the federal poverty limit. A majority of state voters passed the expansion, authorized under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, in a November ballot measure.

That follows efforts in Florida in recent years to roll back constitutional amendments passed by more than 60 percent of its voters.

  The Hill

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.