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Arizona Mirror
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Three candidates shared nearly 4,000 donors to qualify for $4.7 million in public campaign cash. Six of those voters said they never gave them a dime and don't know how they were listed as backing their campaigns. story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

azmirror.com‘With 1,000% certainty’: Voters say candidates faked their donations to get public campaign cashAn Arizona campaign finance fraud investigation found forged $5 donations behind $4.7M in public campaign funds

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Gary Swing
@kiwilimegreens.bsky.social

The Arizona Corrupt Elections Commission invited all four sham candidates who are actively opposed by the Arizona Green Party to participate in their debates while excluding the Green Party's endorsed candidates for CD6 and Corporation Commissioner from their debates. www.azgp.org/2026_candidates

azgp.org2026 CandidatesThe Green Party supports livable wages, universal health care, repeal Citizens United, free higher education, student debt forgiveness, full reproductive rights for women, human rights for all immigra...
The Original Gooch
@dkon.bsky.social

The Green Party needs to get their nomination process under control. The GOP is fraudulently getting spots on their tickets and using them in multiple states to draw votes away from Democratic candidates in critical races.

Gary Swing
@kiwilimegreens.bsky.social

The Arizona state legislature needs to reform its ballot access laws so smaller parties can nominate candidates by party assembly, as they do in 17 other states. Arizona has rotten election laws that create perverse incentives for insincere candidates to "game the vote." www.gp.org/gary_swing_a...

gp.orgGary Swing: Arizona's ballot access laws need to be reformedThe United States has some of the world's most restrictive ballot access laws. Arizona's system is among the worst of the worst. I suggest using ballot access reform enacted in Colorado 30 years ago ...
The Original Gooch
@dkon.bsky.social

Michigan has a similar situation in that a congressional candidate was chosen by the Green Party in a virtual nominating convention and was later shown to likely be a GOP plant to siphon votes from the Democratic candidate in a tight race. He was an unknown with his camera off during a Zoom call.