PHOENIX — The question of whether Arizona gets to keep its ban on “ballot harvesting’’ could turn on whether a now-ejected state legislator who first proposed the law was trying to suppress minority votes — and how his motive affected his colleagues.
PHOENIX — The question of whether Arizona gets to keep its ban on “ballot harvesting’’ could turn on whether a now-ejected state legislator who first proposed the law was trying to suppress minority votes — and how his motive affected his colleagues.
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PHOENIX — Arizona Republicans lost the last two U.S. Senate races.
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona attorney general has ruled that Republican Gov. Doug Ducey did not violate state law when he encouraged small business owners to vote no on a ballot measure calling for a tax surcharge on high-earners to boost education funding.
PHOENIX — Facing defeats in court, Republican lawmakers are moving to change the law — retroactively — in a bid to eventually get their hands on voting equipment and ballots, even if it takes months.
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- Local attorney suspended for year due to unethical behavior
- Police searching for suspects in Sierra Vista, Benson robberies
- Woman accused of defrauding clients is released from county jail
- UPDATE: Three people found dead in apartment, including 5-month-old boy, in suspected double suicide, murder
- Murder suspect will be evaluated a third time to determine competency
- Republicans attempting expansion of voucher program
- House panel aims to restore judicial discretion
- Woman accused of fraud pleads not guilty, trial date set
- Local man charged with five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor
- Crossings by undocumented persons from Mexico on the rise since last March, Sheriff's Office says
- Winter weather wreaks havoc with work schedules, roads in Cochise County
- Trial date set for man accused of stabbing co-worker
- Cochise County Superior Court reorganized after judge retires, new one arrives
- Convicted husband, wife child abusers sent to prison
- Bill would allow community service for traffic fine payment
- Maricopa supervisors to comply with Senate election-materials request
- Two boys arrested for major destruction at elementary school, police say
- 8 Dem legislators seek investigation of 4 AZ GOP members in Capitol incident
PHOENIX (AP) — Republicans who control the Arizona Senate fell one vote short on Monday of holding the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in contempt for failing to turn over voting machines and ballots from the November election that lawmakers want to examine as they continue to question …
PHOENIX — The game of political chicken between the Arizona Senate and Maricopa County supervisors comes to a head Monday as lawmakers weigh holding board members in contempt, opening the door for the apparently unprecedented possibility of county officials being charged with a crime or even…
PHOENIX — Senate Republicans are moving to approve new restrictions on the ability of county recorders to conduct voter-registration drives.
The good news is we now have a COVID vaccine — the bad news is we’re having a problem getting it into people’s arms, due to a national shortage!
PHOENIX — Unhappy with what Maricopa County has proposed, state senators are going ahead with their own audit of the general election, a move that could lead to a new court fight and even potentially a contempt vote.
PHOENIX — A second-term Republican lawmaker wants to allow the Arizona Legislature to overturn the results of a presidential election, even after the count was formally certified by the governor and secretary of state — and even after Congress counted the state’s electors.
BOWIE — Bowie Unified School District welcomed in the new year by naming new and returning members to its school board on Jan. 12.
PHOENIX — In the wake of protests over the election results in Arizona, Republicans on a Senate panel approved two changes in election laws Thursday designed to audit more votes and require automatic recounts in more situations.
PHOENIX — A plan by a Peoria lawmaker to curb what he says is an opportunity for election fraud could end up throwing roadblocks in the path of some who want to cast a ballot.
PHOENIX — State senators won’t get the trove of election materials they are demanding, at least not yet — if ever.
As Washington continued to reel from Wednesday’s deadly assault on the Capitol by pro-Trump supporters, U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick is supporting every effort to hold the president accountable.
PHOENIX — The 2021 legislative session is being brought to you by the letter E.
PHOENIX — Arizona finally got its 11 electoral votes for Joe Biden counted late Wednesday after Congress reconvened — and after a majority of federal lawmakers rejected claims on how the tally here was unreliable.
PHOENIX — The attorney for Maricopa County is accusing state senators of demanding access to voting equipment and records to turn them over to an attorney for President Trump.
PHOENIX — The head of the Arizona Republican Party is suing Vice President Mike Pence in a bid to give the election to Donald Trump.
YUMA — The Attorney General’s Office says two people have been accused of ballot harvesting in the state’s Yuma County.
PHOENIX — Republican state senators are going on the legal offensive in their bid to get access to Maricopa County voting equipment and materials — and do so ahead of the date Congress is set to ratify awarding Arizona’s electoral votes going to Joe Biden.
PHOENIX — Local governments cannot stop their employees from donating to candidates for local offices, Attorney General Mark Brnovich has concluded.
PHOENIX — Political candidates and their supporters unhappy with the results of an election would get a chance to try to overturn the results under the terms of legislation to be considered this coming year by the state Senate.
PHOENIX — Arizona’s 11 Democrat electors cast their votes Monday for Joe Biden even as the chairman of a Senate panel said he will issue subpoenas to check the accuracy of hardware and software that gave the Democrat the edge over President Trump.
PHOENIX — A Pinal County judge is being urged to toss out the latest — and possibly the last — challenge to the results of the presidential race in Arizona and the awarding of the state's 11 electoral college votes to Joe Biden.
PHOENIX — A Senate panel will hold hearings on what happened with the just-completed election with an eye on answering questions of whether it was conducted fairly and legally.
PHOENIX — The state's high court late Tuesday threw out a bid by the head of the state Republican Party to void the results of the presidential race.
PHOENIX — The latest lawsuit challenging the results of the presidential election in Arizona charges that Mark Zuckerberg and his money deliberately skewed the vote here for Joe Biden.
PHOENIX — Challengers to Joe Biden’s victory in Arizona will get documents they contend will cast enough doubt about the election results, void the just certified official tally and give the state’s 11 electoral votes to President Trump.