Arizona authorities have received two new complaints of voter intimidation in recent days as groups of self-appointed “election security” observers—some of them armed, many wearing tactical gear—continue to stake out ballot drop boxes.
The fresh allegations make three in total that have been formally filed, and follow a case the Arizona Secretary of State’s office referred last week to the Department of Justice. In that incident, a voter accused a clutch of people “hanging out near the ballot dropbox” of filming and photographing him, his wife, and their car’s license plate as they cast their ballots at the Mesa Juvenile Court on Oct. 17.
They were then accused of being “mules,” a reference to far-right agitator Dinesh D’Souza’s thoroughly debunked film 2,000 Mules, which falsely claimed Democratic operatives stuffed voting drop boxes with phony votes during the 2020 presidential election.
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