Senate approves several election law changes, but 3 fail

(KYMA, KECY/ AP News) - In the continued battle over elections in the state, the Arizona Senate has approved several revisions to the state’s election laws.

Three of the bills be considered were rejected when majority Republicans failed to muster the needed 16 votes.

The rejection of the three bills is a sign that many of dozens of Republican-sponsored election law changes set for Senate votes in the coming days are likely to face trouble. This because just one 'no vote' from a GOP Senator marks the end for any bill that can’t garner Democratic support.

And a key vote that sided with Democrats on several of the measures was Republican Senator Paul Boyer.

But the bills that got backing from Boyer included one makes it a felony to help someone from outside Arizona register to vote, one that requires the legislature’s non-partisan legal team to review the manual that guides election workers and one that requires courts to send monthly reports of people convicted of felonies and who are no longer eligible to vote.

The ones that failed drew concerns from Boyer — and his no votes — were what he called bad policy that needlessly makes election work more difficult or what he called overreach.