Just Follow the Law

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Mark Finchem, the election denier who campaigned to become Arizona’s chief election official, had a slogan during his failed bid for the Secretary of State’s Office: “Just follow the law.” 

But perhaps the slogan for his 2024 election, in which he’s trying to make a comeback to the Legislature after carpetbagging from Pima County to Yavapai County, should be: “I wasn’t aware it’s illegal.” 

That’s what he told us when we asked about a Tweet he posted showing his bubbled-in vote for Donald Trump on his presidential preference election ballot with a signed affidavit underneath showing he voted in person.

In Arizona, it’s a class 2 misdemeanor to take a photo inside a polling place.

We’d like to think Finchem was wearing this outfit that our art intern, ChatGPT, picked out for him while he took the ballot photo.

Finchem should know that: He voted in 2015 to approve the law that he seemingly broke last week.