After 20 Years of Voting by Mail, Andy Biggs and Karrin Taylor Robson Attack Voting by Mail

After both supporting the federal executive order to eliminate mail-in voting, Andy Biggs and Karrin Taylor Robson got caught voting by mail for the last two decades, and “Biggs himself supported the 2007 legislation that created the state’s permanent early voting list.”

With every passing day, the GOP primary moves further to the extreme, as both Biggs and Taylor Robson put their own extreme partisan agendas ahead of everyday Arizonans, ignoring small businesses hurt by chaotic tariffs, families on Medicaid worried about losing their health care, and business leaders warning that the disastrous budget they both supported will damage Arizona’s economy.

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Phoenix New Times: GOP governor candidates bash mail voting, frequently voted by mail

Dillon Rosenblatt

September 5, 2025

• Donald Trump’s pledge last month to eliminate voting by mail drew support from two Republicans now campaigning to unseat Gov. Katie Hobbs in 2026: Rep. Andy Biggs and previous gubernatorial candidate Karrin Taylor Robson. Both praised Trump’s vow to ban the practice, which he labeled “corrupt.” Trump has endorsed them both for the race already.

  
  

• Maricopa County voter file records indicate both have personally relied on mail voting for nearly two decades. Biggs has been on Arizona’s permanent early voting list since at least 2006 and has cast nearly all of his ballots by mail, including in the 2020, 2022 and 2024 elections. Robson shows a similarly long record of voting by mail across numerous election cycles dating back nearly twenty years.

  
  

• The irony runs deeper in Arizona, where Republicans originally built and expanded the mail voting system that Trump and his allies now want to dismantle. No-excuse early voting became law in 1991 under then-Gov. Fife Symington, backed by GOP lawmakers, and Biggs himself supported the 2007 legislation that created the state’s permanent early voting list.

  
  

• Despite the system’s popularity, Trump and his allies have made mail voting a central target since 2020, blaming it without evidence for GOP election losses. Biggs and Robson’s embrace of that message underscores how deeply Trump’s stance is shaping the 2026 governor’s race, even as both candidates’ personal records show a steady reliance on early ballots.

  
  

• Not all Republicans share their view. Last month, a group of current and former GOP officials — including former Gov. Jan Brewer and former Rep. Matt Salmon — publicly defended Arizona’s vote-by-mail system, calling it secure, efficient and widely trusted. The result is a split within the party: while some Republicans emphasize the system’s popularity and long record of security, candidates like Biggs and Robson now find themselves denouncing a practice they have each quietly used for years.

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