Arizona Senators who cheered 2020 election review advance voting-related legislation

Proposing changes to the way Arizona handles residents who only vote in federal elections.These are some of the measures included in a slew of election-related bills that were advanced by the Arizona state Senate on Monday. The hearing came several months after Senate Republicans' review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County concurred that President Biden won the county, but raised several concerns about election administration.Maricopa County officials denied the Senate's contractors' claims of counting invalid ballots and election administration errors, saying the review was plagued by "faulty analysis, inaccurate claims, misleading conclusions, and a lack of understanding of federal and state election laws."  The hearing Monday featured testimony from speakers who spread previously debunked theories about the 2020 election, including the long-discredited theory that voters who used sharpies did not have their ballots counted. Maricopa County asserted in its rebuttal that one type of paper was used "for every ballot" and "all paper was of sufficient thickness to prevent the printing from being discernible on the opposite side."Two of the proposed bills deal with Arizona voters who can only cast ballots in federal elections.