Phony elector aims to turn pro-Trump scheme into Arizona law

An election-denying Arizona Republican wants to give members of the state legislature the authority to override election results to appoint presidential electors of their own choosing.

The state's electoral votes currently go to the candidate who wins the popular vote, and those electors then cast their votes along those lines in the Electoral College in December, but Senate Concurrent Resolution 1014 would take that decision out of voters' hands, reported KNAU-TV.

State Sen. Anthony Kern (R-Glendale), who was among the GOP legislators who signed onto a document falsely claiming to be an elector for Donald Trump after the 2020 election and was photographed outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, introduced the resolution.

He is proposing that the Arizona legislature gets the sole authority to appoint electors — without being tied to which candidate got the popular vote.

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The Arizona attorney general's office confirmed Kern, who is not seeking re-election but is instead running for Congress, was under investigation along with the other phony electors involved in the scheme.

If Kern's resolution is passed by the state legislature, the measure would then go on the November ballot to allow voters to decide whether it should be added to the state Constitution.