The overview text of Arizona House Bill 2237, which mandates that an “elector may not vote in an election unless the elector has been registered to vote as a resident and the registration has been received by the county recorder or recorder’s designee before midnight 29 days before the election” fails to mention that there is actually no current way for an elector (legislative term for voter) to vote unless they have been registered to do so at least 29 days before an election.

Sometimes a bit of extrapolation is necessary to appreciate how fucking stupid and pointless this kind of stuff is, so look at it this way: Republicans in the Arizona might as well be spending taxpayers’ time writing, amending, and voting on a law prohibiting Arizona drivers from drawing their own homemade driver’s license on an index card with a crayon because only state-issued license cards count as valid Arizona driver’s license documents. Really the most that HB 2337 could do is require a future Arizona legislature to add a few lines explicitly repealing it as a provision in a bill to implement same-day registration. And yet it’s up for consideration in the state Senate.

Naturally a big proponent of HB 2337 is state Senator Kelly Townsend, a Trump-endorsed “Stop the Steal” asshole who is probably trying to look busy after the infamous CyberNinjas clusterfuck and its failure to find any evidence whatsoever of fraud in the 2020 election recedes into memory. “If somebody were to vote who wasn’t registered and took a provisional ballot, are they able to circumvent the voter registration process?” asked the dipshit who is either lying or stupid enough to believe a provisional ballot by an unregistered voter would end up anywhere but the trash.