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Liz Harris is an American politician from Arizona who was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from January 2023 to April 2023. She was elected in November 2022 from Legislative District 13, which includes much of Chandler, Arizona.

Liz Harris was expelled Wednesday from the Arizona House of Representatives for ethics violations resulting from inviting a conspiracy theorist to publicly testify before lawmakers earlier this year about lawmakers and other state officials and then, according to an ethics committee report, lying about her involvement in the outrageous testimony.

In February, Liz Harris had invited Jacqueline Breger to present findings of what Breger and Harris claimed was an investigation. Breger spewed a number of lies and attacks against public officials, including Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. One of those lies spread on social media and resulted in Hobbs responding with a joke before cameras saying, “No, I am not involved with the Sinaloa cartel. I’m not taking bribes from them and I’m not laundering their money.”

Liz Harris unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Arizona legislature in 2020 and in 2022, campaigned for election to the state House from Arizona’s 13th Legislative District, a district covering portions of the Phoenix suburbs, specifically south Chandler, west Gilbert, and Sun Lakes in the East Valley.

In the November 2022 election, Liz Harris (along with Democratic Representative Jennifer Pawlik) was elected to the state House from the two-seat 13th District. She defeated fellow Republican Julie Willoughby by 275 votes (after an automatic recount, in which Liz Harris had a net gain of five votes, concluded in December 2022).

After Donald Trump lost Arizona in the 2020 presidential election, Liz Harris promoted unsupported claims that the election was “stolen” from Trump. She led a door-to-door canvassing campaign in a bid to find supposed “election fraud” and released a report (possibly debunked by election experts) claiming fraud. (The Arizona Attorney General’s office, then led by Republican attorney general Mark Brnovich, assigned 60 staffers to investigate the 2020 election; after spending 10,000 hours investigating, no evidence of fraud was found.)

Liz Harris’s door-to-door canvassing effort drew scrutiny from the U.S. Justice Department Civil Rights Division on concerns of potential voter intimidation. She claimed in a May 2021 video that her efforts were part of a “good versus evil” and that efforts in Arizona would lead to revelations of nationwide election fraud. After her election, Liz Harris baselessly claimed that the 2022 Arizona elections, in which Republicans lost top statewide races, were marred by fraud. She threatened to refuse to cast any vote in the House until the election was redone.

Upon taking office in January 2023, Liz Harris introduced legislation that would ban both mail-in voting and in-person early voting and make it easier to challenge election results in court. Although a first-term representative, Harris’s vote was important to the Republicans’ one-vote majority in the House. (Republicans hold 31 seats, and Democrats 29 seats.) In February 2023, she was the sole Republican to vote against a major Republican budget package, defeating the measure.

In February 2023, Liz Harris invited Jacqueline Breger, a Scottsdale insurance agent, to testify before a joint hearing of Republican-controlled House and Senate elections committees. In her 41-minute presentation, Breger claimed that Governor Katie Hobbs, several members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, a dozen Maricopa County Superior Court judges, and the mayor of Mesa had all taken bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel through a housing deed scam as part of a vast money laundering, racketeering, and election fraud scheme.

Five days after the hearing, Liz Harris distanced herself from Breger’s and Thaler’s claims, conceding that the presentation “was not sufficient to substantiate these extraordinary claims.” Democratic Representative Stephanie Stahl Hamilton filed a complaint against Harris with the House Ethics Committee, saying that Liz Harris had made Arizona a “national joke”; She asserted that she was constitutionally obligated to allow the testimony. On April 12, 2023, Liz Harris was expelled from the legislature by a 46–13 vote for damaging “the integrity of the House.”