Congressman Hamadeh Anticipated Radical Attack on Election Integrity Executive Order

WASHINGTON, DC - As Congressman Abe Hamadeh (AZ-08) correctly anticipated, the beneficiaries of Arizona's broken election system have announced their plans to file a lawsuit preventing much-needed reforms embodied in President Trump's Executive Order 14248, entitled Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.

Knowing that Arizona's illegitimate Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and their ilk across the country will go to any lengths to keep our elections processes broken, Congressman Hamadeh introduced legislationto support and codify President Donald Trump's election integrity agenda, co-sponsored by Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24), Chair of the Congressional Election Integrity Caucus.

On Thursday, Mayes and Fontes announced their intention to sue President Trump to stop his efforts which would increase confidence in our nation's elections.

Congressman Hamadeh has argued that Arizonans have been the victims of the mismanagement of voter rolls, failed election infrastructure, and corrupt courts, leading to the destruction of their confidence and faith in our system overall. That is why he took swift action to rebuild citizens' trust in our elections through comprehensive and meaningful election integrity legislation.

By codifying President Trump's Executive Order 14248, Congressman Hamadeh's bill would make law an extensive list of necessary measures including government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship, security standards for voting equipment, enforcement of the voter-list maintenance rules, requiring voter-verifiable paper ballots, and prosecuting non-citizen voting and related crimes.

"The American people deserve better. They deserve to know that their legally cast ballot is counted and accounted for. I am disappointed, but obviously not surprised that Mayes and Fontes seek to thwart the implementation of commonsense safeguards of democracy," concluded Congressman Hamadeh. "As a trusted advisor once said to me, 'election integrity never disenfranchised a single soul, but a single act of election fraud disenfranchises us all.'"