Treason may not be enough for Mark Finchem. Just follow the money.

 From Rick Hasen at Election Law Blog -

“GOP lawmakers are pushing high-tech ‘fraud-proof’ ballots. A Texas company could be the only supplier.”

WaPo:

Holographic foil. Special ink designed to be sensitive to temperature changes. Nearly invisible “stealth numbers” that can be located only using special ultraviolet or infrared lights.

Those are among the high-tech security features that would be required to be embedded on ballots under measures proposed in at least four states by Republican lawmakers — all promoters of false claims that the 2020 election was marred by mass fraud — in an attempt to make the ballots as hard to counterfeit as passports or currency.

But the specialized inks and watermarks also would limit the number of companies capable of selling ballot paper — potentially to just one Texas firm with no previous experience in elections that consulted with the lawmakers proposing the measures.

Mark Finchem, an Arizona state representative spearheading the , said in an interview that he developed ideas for the proposals after discussions with executives of Authentix, a company in Addison, Tex. The firm has since hosted other GOP lawmakers at its office and given presentations about the idea to legislators in two states, according to participants and social media posts.

Finchem is a cosponsor of two of the bills floating through the Arizona with this language

legislature - HB2041 (held in committee) and SB1120 (amended to include an appropriation of $12,000,000).

House Appropriations is scheduled to consider a striker (with this language) to HB2726 with an appropriation of $6,000,000 in it.  Offered by Rep. Regina Cobb.

A similar bill, SB1028, sponsored by state Sen. Wendy Rogers, but without any appropriations language, was held in committee in January.