Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem slammed Arizona’s elections in a visit to Scottsdale on Friday, saying “no state could use more improvement.”
Noem spoke at a press conference on election security hours before her agency was set to run out of money and pushed for passage of federal legislation to mandate voter ID and proof of citizenship to register to vote.
“But I hope that you do recognize that in the past, your state has been an absolute disaster on elections, that your leaders have failed you dramatically by not having systems that work, by disenfranchising Americans who wanted to vote,” she said. “They had to stand in lines for hours because machines failed or software failed. There’s no state that could use more improvement than Arizona.”…