The draconian Arizona state House bill HB2596, which would have killed off early voting, required hand counts of all ballots, and allowed the state legislature to override the result of any election they didn’t like, was left all but dead Wednesday by Speaker Rusty Bowers, defeated in a maneuver that would require it to survive twelve different committees, something far right state Rep John Fillmore compared to a “lynching”, AZFamily.com reports. “Yeah, it was a lynching,” said the lawmaker, who also said last week that “we need to get back to 1958-style voting.”