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Elections
Mexico’s Morena political party had a historic win during elections in the country’s most populous state over the weekend. The Morena party will now hold the governorship in 23 of Mexico’s 32 states.
Jun. 5, 2023
Arizonans will be able to continue to vote early despite efforts by the Arizona Republican Party to have the practice declared illegal. The Arizona Supreme Court on Friday rejected arguments by state Rep. Alexander Kolodin (R-Scottsdale).
Jun. 2, 2023
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.
Jun. 1, 2023
A former elections official for a rural Arizona county where leaders have embraced election conspiracy theories has received a $130,000 settlement over toxic work environment claims.
Jun. 1, 2023
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.
May. 31, 2023
The Show talked about what might be next for the Coyotes with Sean Gentille, senior NHL writer for The Athletic, and started with what the conversations are like now within the NHL about the team’s future.
May. 30, 2023
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.
May. 30, 2023
On Friday, Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill that would have removed Arizona from a program that helps perform voter registration checks across state lines.
May. 29, 2023
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.
May. 29, 2023
Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell has asked a Superior Court judge to sanction losing Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and her attorneys.
May. 24, 2023
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.
May. 24, 2023
Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson closed the books on an election challenge by losing gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake that was all but dismissed by the Arizona Supreme Court.
May. 23, 2023
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.
May. 22, 2023
The League of Women Voters of Arizona has settled its lawsuit against an Arizona group that sometimes monitored ballot drop boxes while in tactical military gear in 2022.
May. 22, 2023
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.
May. 22, 2023
Attorneys in the latest Kari Lake election trial made their closing arguments Friday afternoon. In an attempt to overturn the 2022 election results, Lake’s team has been trying to prove that Maricopa County didn’t properly verify ballot signatures.
May. 19, 2023
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.
May. 18, 2023
To prepare for the 2024 elections, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School has released a series of recommendations for federal, state and local officials to make sure those elections are secure.
May. 17, 2023
Carefree voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a new property tax to support fire and emergency medical services
May. 17, 2023
Lawmakers have referred a measure to the ballot asking Arizona voters to ban ranked-choice voting. But the the National Campaign for Final-Five Voting and Save Democracy Arizona are working on a different proposal.
May. 16, 2023
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