Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates, who’s faced threats and harassment for his defense of the county’s elections since certifying the vote in 2020, said Thursday he won’t seek reelection in 2024.

Last week, Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill that would have forced Scottsdale to resume selling water to the unincorporated community of the Rio Verde Foothills. In her veto letter, she told lawmakers to instead send her another bill: HB 2561, sponsored by Republican Rep. Alexander Kolodin.

Human error caused election officials in Pinal County to initially fail to count hundreds of ballots in the 2022 midterm elections. Now county officials want to try hand counting ballots — another approach prone to human error.

Ylenia Aguilar has announced her campaign for Congress. She joins a growing field of Democrats in Arizona’s third congressional district vying to replace incumbent Representative Ruben Gallego, who’s vacating the seat to run for U.S. Senate.

Democratic state Sen. Priya Sundareshan has criticized her GOP colleague after he sent a letter to Arizona’s 15 counties, claiming there were dangers using electronic voting machines.

Citing authority he does not actually have, a state senator has ordered all Arizona counties to conduct future federal elections without the use of electronic voting equipment.

Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed two election-related bills. One bill would have let representatives of both political parties challenge the decisions made by election workers over early ballot signature validation.

Maricopa County has a failed process for verifying thousands of ballot signatures that even some of its own workers question, attorneys for Kari Lake, the 2022 Republican candidate for Arizona governor, argued in court Wednesday.

Carefree voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a new property tax to support fire and emergency medical services