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Campaigns, election administration, polling, and the road to November.
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It’s too late for Republican Arizona Corporation Commission candidate Ralph Heap to back out of the state’s public campaign funding program, the Citizens Clean Elections Commission decided Wednesday — for the second time in as many months. In a unanimous vote, the five commissioners chose not to accept Heap’s...
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President Donald Trump’s executive order placing new restrictions on mail-in voting would assign state officials a Herculean task to reach compliance before the crucial midterm elections. The order directed the U.S. Postal Service to strictly regulate the envelope design of mail-in ballots and to collect voter data...
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The Arizona Attorney General’s Office is investigating three fringe candidates for statewide office facing allegations that they falsely used voters’ information alongside fraudulent $5 donations to qualify for millions of dollars in public campaign funds. Richie Taylor, spokesman for Attorney General Kris Mayes,...
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Fontes defends the current system and litigates against federal demands, while Kolodin cites voter confidence, pushes Prop. 144 ID, and faults Fontes on records in a tight, consequence-heavy secretary of state race.
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The outcome of the highly contested race for secretary of state could depend on whether voters believe Arizona’s elections are safe and secure. The post Fontes, Kolodin clash over Arizona election security first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
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Alex Kolodin, the Republican running to be the state’s top election administrator as secretary of state, refused to say that Arizona’s elections are safe and secure in a candidate forum Monday on public television. He dodged the question multiple times, instead declaring that Arizonans don’t have confidence in the...
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Later this year, voters will decide whether Mexican drug cartels should be labeled terrorist organizations under Arizona law, a classification that critics say will, at best, do nothing and, at worst, be used by a future governor to justify sending military forces to the border. Proposition 317 would declare drug...
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A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday declined the Trump administration’s request to overturn the temporary restraining order she signed last week that blocks the U.S. Postal Service from carrying out a rule placing new restrictions on mail-in voting. The 14-day order published Aug. 27 was not appealable, U.S....
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More than one in every eight Arizonans identify as LGBTQ, making up a demographic group that may prove consequential in the state’s close elections. A recent analysis of federal data across four years conducted by the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization, estimated that 13.34% of...
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Progressive activist Gaby Goldstein thinks her opponents are brilliant. Despite her deeply held liberal politics, she admires the work of conservative groups that for decades have built influence in state governments across the country. “We on the left have left a huge amount of power on the table,” said Goldstein,...
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Tyler Montague speaks with Arizona Globe on the Trump Administration’s challenge to Arizona’s Dreamer tuition law
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A federal judge froze for two weeks a Trump administration regulation to restrict mail voting late Thursday, calling the U.S. Postal Service rule a violation of states’ power to administer elections. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s temporary restraining order reinstated a pause that she had lifted just a day...
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The Clean Elections Commission on Thursday ordered its executive director to continue to investigate three fringe statewide candidates suspected of falsely obtaining millions in public funds for their campaigns. When that investigation is completed, they want him to make a recommendation about whether any of the...
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service took another step Thursday in implementing a Trump administration policy to restrict mail-in voting, even as a high-stakes legal battle plays out and midterm elections approach. The agency published an FAQ about its new rule that compels states to send their voter rolls to the...
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Arizona could remove hundreds of thousands of voters from its automatic mail ballot list under the provisions of a state law coming to bear next year. The 2027 removals will be the first under the law, signed in 2021 by former Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican. The statute requires county recorders to remove voters...
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Affordability is top of mind for voters going into the November election, and early childhood advocates hope that will be enough to fuel support for investments in Arizona’s backlogged childcare assistance program. “Everybody is talking about affordability, and childcare should be part of this affordability...
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Voters won’t get to change Arizona’s ESA program after two propositions failed ballot qualification, but other statewide races could still shape its future. The post Even with measures struck down, ESAs loom over election first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
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Arizona's Clean Elections Commission will weigh a $4.7 million clawback tied to alleged falsified qualifying donations as Attorney General Kris Mayes faces fresh scrutiny over clearing Gov.
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Recorder Michelle Burchill was intrigued when she first learned about a newly expanded federal tool for checking voters’ citizenship. She had helped run elections in bright-red Yavapai County, Arizona, for about six years — and while she entered the field as an elections skeptic, she had gained trust in election...
