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Learn more about the candidates in Arizona's top 2022 races.
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Secretary of state
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Primary review
Voting concluded Tuesday in the Arizona primary elections, including notable races for governor, secretary of state, attorney general, U.S. Senate and several U.S. House districts. Results are still being updated.
Aug. 2, 2022
A flurry of endorsements for GOP-gubernatorial hopeful Karrin Taylor Robson have turned the Arizona primary into a proxy battle for the state of the Republican Party. Former allies of Donald Trump are backing the opponent of his preferred nominee, Kari Lake.
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Jul. 19, 2022
Arizona’s secretary of state has many election-related and administrative functions. But one task, once mundane, has been politicized by some of the candidates vying for the office: election certification.
Jul. 18, 2022
The race for state attorney general is one of the most crowded fields on Arizona’s primary ballots. And recent Supreme Court decisions have put this down-ballot race in the spotlight.
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Jul. 20, 2022
Whoever wins the Democratic nomination in Arizona's 6th Congressional District will have their work cut out for them. The state’s redistricting commission took out Democratic enclaves, like Bisbee, and it added more conservative areas, like Saddlebrooke.
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Jul. 15, 2022
As Republicans aim to unseat Democrat Mark Kelly, the campaign for U.S. Senate in Arizona is among the most expensive in the country.
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Jul. 21, 2022
There weren't supposed to be candidates running for Maricopa County attorney this year. But a special election has been called, and whoever wins in November only gets a brief window to work on rebuilding one of the largest prosecuting offices in the country.
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Jul. 26, 2022
FAQs about voting In Arizona
Major candidates for three key offices in 2022 have said they wouldn’t have certified the 2020 election results in Arizona. These offices — governor, secretary of state and attorney general — all play a role in affirming state election results. Here are GOP candidate statements on that front in this handy cheat sheet on election denialism.
Jun. 27, 2022
When filling out your mail-in ballot, Maricopa County recorder Stephen Richer asks you to make sure you use the correct writing instrument.
Jul. 18, 2022
More Arizona election coverage
A Phoenix City Council candidate thinks the state’s highest court should hear his lawsuit to keep an opponent off the November ballot. Moses Sanchez is appealing a lower court ruling after learning the judge’s wife supported his opponent, Kevin Robinson.
Kari Lake officially became the Republican nominee for governor when the ballots from last week’s primary election were fully counted. A Phoenix Magazine profile on Kari Lake fell through. Editor Craig Outhier explained why in a recent piece he wrote.
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After winning the Republican primary for governor, Kari Lake issued calls for GOP unity — then traveled to Texas to bash the late U.S. Sen. John McCain, an Arizona icon.
The Maricopa County Elections Department is looking for poll workers, warehouse workers, ballot processors and other related positions for the upcoming general election.
Republican Mark Finchem will face Democrat Adrian Fontes in the race for Arizona secretary of state in November after each emerged from their party’s primary last week.
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More Arizona politics coverage
This week, former President Donald Trump dominated headlines again when the FBI issued a search warrant at his Florida residence.
The U.S. military has veterans all over the country. But some have trouble connecting, or even knowing about benefits and services that are available to them.
Brittney Griner has been detained in Russia for nearly six months on drug charges. And those hoping for her return were devastated when she was hit with a nine-year prison sentence.
The FBI’s serving of a search warrant at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago house is being called an historic event, and speculation persists about what exactly agents were looking for.
Amid election official turnover and staff shortages, experts worry elections “could get a little chaotic.”
