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Republican election denier expelled from Arizona house

Liz Harris, the Republican lawmaker expelled on Wednesday. Harris’s Republican colleagues were split on the expulsion vote.
Liz Harris, the Republican lawmaker expelled on Wednesday. Harris’s Republican colleagues were split on the expulsion vote. Photograph: Gage Skidmore/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock

Liz Harris, an election-denying Republican lawmaker in the Arizona house of representatives, was expelled by her colleagues on Wednesday after she invited to a committee hearing a conspiracy theorist who accused elected officials of unproven corruption and bribery.

Republican and Democratic representatives joined together to expel Harris with a 46-13 vote. An expulsion requires a two-thirds vote of the chamber and is rare. The last expulsion from the Arizona legislature was in 2018, though before that, the most recent was in 1991.

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