Austin Smith on July 31, 2023. Photo by Gage Skidmore | Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0
Former Arizona legislator Austin Smith has been offered a plea deal in a multiple-felony criminal case that alleges he personally forged numerous voter signatures on his own petitions for reelection.
Smith was indicted in June by a Maricopa County grand jury on four felony counts for presenting documents he knew were…