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Campaigns, election administration, polling, and the road to November.
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The former Mesa mayor and Trump critic has backed Democrats in Arizona’s biggest recent races
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Arizona's ballot language must be neutral. On Prop 144, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes's explainer reads like a nudge. Judge Adele Ponce should order a text-faithful rewrite and let voters decide the merits.
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WASHINGTON — States do not have time before November’s midterm elections to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating overhauls of their mail-in-voting systems, two dozen Democratic state officials told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. Justices should keep a stay pausing the order in place...
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A conservative legal group is accusing Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes of trying to mislead voters about a Republican ballot measure. The post Conservative group sues Fontes over Prop. 144 explainer first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
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A reported party-line vote advancing Todd Blanche's nomination and his private assurances to restrict abortion drug access put Arizona on notice. Before the Senate votes, the public deserves the memo, not the slogan.
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Arizonans will decide in November whether schools should scrutinize who uses which bathrooms during school sports events. Republicans have framed it as a safety issue while critics warn it will only lead to intrusive policing and humiliation. For the past several years, Republicans across the country have pushed...
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House Judiciary Chair Quang Nguyen says he will keep clergy confessions off limits to mandatory reporting bills, putting the next move in voters' hands while a high-profile Facebook flub shows how easily Arizona's campaign conversation can get scrambled.
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Andy Biggs' choice of former Sen. Sine Kerr as Arizona's first-ever lieutenant governor running mate is more than symbolism. Under Prop 131, the role comes with real management power, and Kerr's water-heavy record and hot-button votes set clear stakes for both governance and the
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Closed primaries, county ballots, and party rules decide who reaches November. Here is the machinery without the slogans.
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Former state senator brings rural, agricultural and water-policy experience to historic GOP ticket
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Former state senator brings rural, agricultural and water-policy experience to historic GOP ticket
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As Gov. Katie Hobbs seeks four more years, a State 48 News analysis flags management, ethics and affordability trouble spots while a Capitol Times op-ed urges a sober relook at 911 funding. The next term will turn on execution in a divided government that still has to deliver.
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Former Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates, now at ASU's Mechanics of Democracy Lab, says Arizona must prove election controls with public evidence, keep administration in state hands, and measure whether new trust-building steps like ID-verified early ballots actually work.
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Arizona's elections run on mail ballots and local competence, not nationwide mandates or panic policies. Fund the counters, verify with guardrails, publish the results, and let Arizona run Arizona.
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Maricopa hit 99% counted in 27 hours after the primary, a clear throughput gain tied to an ID-present option that kept 23,000 early ballots out of the post-election queue. Now the county owes taxpayers the ledger: costs, hours, and unit results. The same rigor should guide the $-
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Most incumbents advanced, but progressives ousted Democratic Reps. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton and Lydia Hernandez in safe blue districts, trading a veteran budget negotiator for new left-flank voices. A new optional ballot drop-off with ID drew more than 6,000 users in Pima, hintng
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Hobbs declined a head-to-head with Biggs, who now says he will attend an Oct. 6 Clean Elections debate. With abortion polling and DHS's election-season assurance on ICE in the background, Arizona voters are being asked to accept more message control and fewer unscripted tests.
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Biggs' pick of Sine Kerr signals a rural-water focus while Arizona stares at a potential $208 million SNAP cost share and a data-center subsidy hangover. The next administration's math on error rates, utility cost shifts, and WIFA outcomes will decide who pays.
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump defended his highly criticized, nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” settlement fund on social media and in a Cabinet meeting Friday, as two key Republican senators withheld support for the president’s nominee for attorney general over Trump’s refusal to formally end the pot...
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Andy Biggs, the GOP nominee for governor, picked former state legislator Sine Kerr as his running mate, announcing on Friday that she was his choice for lieutenant governor. Kerr, a dairy farmer from Buckeye, was appointed to the Arizona Senate in 2018 to fill a vacancy. She then went on to win three full terms […]
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For the second election cycle in a row, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is refusing to debate her Republican opponent. Hobbs narrowly won the governor’s seat by about 17,000 votes in 2022 after she declined to share a debate stage with Republican Kari Lake. Now, U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, the winner of the July 21 Republican […]
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Arizonans won't get to see Katie Hobbs and Andy Biggs debate each other before the November general election. The post Katie Hobbs rejects debate with Andy Biggs first appeared on Arizona Capitol Times .
