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GOP tensions rise as Senate votes down more election bills

Senators Paul Boyer, right, and J.D. Mesnard confer on the Senate floor during a break in the action in Phoenix, Ariz., Friday, May 24, 2019. Arizona Republican lawmakers who pushed through a nearly $2 billion income tax cut in the last session are looking to repeal it and replace it with a new version. The acknowledgement from Rep. Ben Toma and Sen. J.D. Mesnard comes a week after a judge rejected a challenge to the referendum. They were key architects of the flat tax proposal and bills that sidestep a tax on the wealthy that voters approved in 2020.
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Senators Paul Boyer, right, and J.D. Mesnard confer on the Senate floor during a brea in Phoenix in 2019.

The Arizona Senate has voted down more election bills. Tensions rose Monday between the most vocal Republican supporters and critics of the Senate’s 2020 election audit.

It was the third time in a week that a swath of election bills died amid opposition from one or two Republicans and all Democrats.

Among the bills killed Monday were measures that would have created criminal charges for a variety of missteps by election workers and contractors.

They also voted down a bill requiring the public posting of a list of registered voters and images of all cast ballots.