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The Associated Press reported that Ginni Thomas emailed Rep. Shawnna Bolick and House Speaker Rusty Bowers after the 2020 election urging them to choose their own electors, and that Bolick later introduced a bill to let lawmakers replace electors.

KJZZ reported in 2021 that Rep. Shawnna Bolick's bill would let the Arizona Legislature, by majority vote, revoke the certification of the presidential electors voters choose; Bolick called the coverage click bait.

The Arizona Mirror reports on Shawnna Bolick's 2023 appointment to the Arizona Senate, recounting her 2021 bill to let lawmakers override voters' presidential choice, the Ginni Thomas emails, and a supervisor's doubts about her qualifications.

Everytown for Gun Safety launched an LD2 ad accusing Sen. Shawnna Bolick of doing nothing to stop gun violence; the Mirror reports Democratic gun bills never got a hearing, so she could not vote on them, and that she backed a GOP school gun safety bill.

Emails first reported by The Washington Post show Ginni Thomas asked Rep. Shawnna Bolick to help award Arizona's 2020 presidential electors to Donald Trump, and records show Bolick replied by directing her to take any fraud complaints to the attorney general.

The Arizona Mirror previews the 2024 Legislative District 2 Senate race between Shawnna Bolick and Judy Schwiebert, covering education, elections, abortion and Proposition 137.

Progress Arizona filed suit calling the title of SCR1044, a 2024 referral that would end judicial terms, deceptive, and the report notes Sen. Shawnna Bolick voted for it despite colleagues raising a conflict of interest.

Shawnna Bolick told Maricopa County supervisors she had moved on from the 2020 and 2022 elections, but an Arizona Mirror review of her Twitter posts reported she called the 2020 election "rigged" as recently as May 2023.

Rep. Shawnna Bolick launched a 2022 bid for Arizona secretary of state, months after sponsoring a bill that would have let lawmakers revoke certification of presidential electors.

In this February 2021 opinion column, Arizona Mirror editor Jim Small takes aim at HB 2720, Rep. Shawnna Bolick's bill on certifying presidential electors and other election rules.