Arizona Republicans are pushing to divide Maricopa County. Critics say it's about revenge for 2020

[Zorro]

Arizona Republicans are pushing to divide Maricopa County. Critics say it’s about revenge for 2020 — and planning for 2024. - complete headline

Opponents say the bill could make it easier to infuse doubt in the results of future votes or even overturn them

PHOENIX — In a state increasingly dominated by a single county, the first-term Arizona lawmaker offered a simple yet audacious solution: break Maricopa County into four.

By redrawing the state’s maps to create three new counties where only one mega-county now exists, state Rep. Jake Hoffman argued, Arizona could ensure local government “remains representative and accountable to the people it is designed to serve.”

“At its core, it is a Jeffersonian idea,” the Republican told colleagues last month before a House committee advanced his bill on a party-line vote.

But behind the high-minded rhetoric, the bill’s critics see ulterior motives that they say could add to the already considerable pressure on Arizona elections — and on democracy itself.

With some Republican lawmakers continuing to push to have Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat overturned, the legislation is viewed by the former president’s opponents as a thinly veiled attempt to punish GOP supervisors in Maricopa who defied efforts to undermine the legitimacy of the vote.

https://wapo.st/3uhm5yq

[sanatanadharma]

1. Now lets talk about the Feds doing the same to Texas

Counties dissolve cities, States want to dissolve counties, let Feds dissolve States.

Perhaps the USA should return to the articles of confederation, empowering the local and f*ck-Uing the federal, as some Americans seem to want local control dictatorships telling you what you can read and when you can't legally leave home for medical care elsewhere.