At least Sen. Kelly Townsend can dance...if the 'hypocritical two-step' counts as a dance

Pointed at this by AZBlueMeanie at Blog for Arizona.

From Howard Fischer of Capitol Media Services, published by KJZZ -

Townsend encourages 'vigilantes' to monitor ballot drop boxes, denies it's intimidation

One of the leading proponents of the claim that there is fraud in Arizona elections wants "vigilantes" to monitor ballot drop boxes in the upcoming election.

Sen. Kelly Townsend (R-Apache Junction) complained during an informal legislative hearing Tuesday about the failure of the Senate to either outlaw drop boxes entirely or require that they be monitored 24 hours a day. In fact, Townsend wants to deal with the issue of possible fraudulent ballots by eliminating early voting entirely.

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"We're going to have people out there watching you," Townsend said. "And they're going to follow you to your car and get your license plate."

That was Tuesday; on Wednesday, she voted to greatly expand the definition of "harassment".

From the minority report on the conference committee results for SB1633, signed by Rep. Melody Hernandez and Sen. Victoria Steele -

"Under this language, a single instance of surveilling or contacting a person "in a manner that harasses" (the definition of which is murky) could expose someone to a Class 6 felony. The amendment fails to address any of these concerns, and in fact broadens the application of the statute by making it aggravated harassment to commit an act of harassment, as specified above, in violation of an order of protection. For those reasons oppose SB1633 as amended by the conference committee."

SB1633 *does* have a specific carve out, one that seems so specific that Townsend's vigilantes don't seem to fall within it -