GET ME REWRITE: Arizona GOP arrives late to the early voting party

 

Headline:  Washington Post, 11/6/2022

Kelli Ward urged her followers to instead “wait in line & vote in person.” 

Then, last Tuesday [November 1], she posted a photo of herself smiling in front of a steel ballot drop box. In her hand appeared to be an envelope, slid halfway inside. 

“Hubby & I voted early in person today,” her Twitter post said. 

The new messaging from the party leader came amid anxieties among Arizona Republicans that their assaults on early voting could ultimately suppress GOP turnout in a cycle that will help decide control of the U.S. Senate, the governor’s office and dozens of other contests. In a swing state where Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election by 10,457 votes, any shift in voter participation — a slight increase for one party or decrease for another — could decide a tight race.