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Ex-DOJ attorney: Preclearance would have stopped election fiasco
The seeds of Maricopa County’s presidential preference election disaster may have been planted in 2013, when the U.S. Supreme Court freed Arizona from a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
Protesters arrested outside Executive Tower
Four protesters were arrested after blocking the front sliding doors to the governor’s office on Wednesday afternoon.
Abortion medication bill before Ducey based on obsolete FDA standards
A bill awaiting Gov. Doug Ducey’s signature or veto would require doctors to administer medication abortions using outdated federal standards.
House passes campaign finance overhaul
The state House gave final approval Tuesday to a major overhaul of campaign finance laws, including allowing individuals to spend unlimited amounts of money to help raise cash for candidates they like and never have to disclose that to the public.
One arrested as crowd in House gallery protests voting snafus
One man is behind bars after activists halted today’s House floor session with chanting, jeering and a tussle with police.
Raucous crowd calls for Purcell’s resignation in wake of presidential primary fiasco
Amid a raucous crowd’s calls for Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell’s resignation and demands for a “revote,” lawmakers delved into the problems that turned last week’s presidential preference election into a fiasco featuring hours-long lines and chronic voter registration problems.
Legislators pursue minimum wage hike to counter ‘insane socialism’
Arizona lawmakers want voters to strip counties, cities and towns of the ability to set their own minimum wage and their explicit right to adopt employee benefits of their own liking.
Lawmakers zero in on expansion of state Supreme Court
Gov. Doug Ducey may get an unprecedented opportunity that would be the envy of the governors who came before him – appointing at least three Arizona Supreme Court justices before he is half way through his first term.
Arizona voters backed candidates who quit race
Nearly 100,000 voters in Tuesday’s presidential preference election threw away their votes on Republican candidates who are no longer seeking their party’s nomination for president.
Access to House restricted as protesters demonstrate against “hateful rhetoric’’
Officials closed the doors to the Arizona House of Representatives during an anti-Trump, pro-immigrant rally at the state Capitol on Wednesday and put up signs that entry into the People’s House was for “official state business only.”
House votes to restrict medication abortions to first seven weeks
State lawmakers voted Wednesday to restrict how doctors can use a drug for medication abortions to an existing federal standard, even if that standard changes.
Ducey calls for independents to vote in presidential primaries
Following Tuesday’s fiasco in which voters across waited in line for hours to cast their ballots, Gov. Doug Ducey called for independents to be allowed to vote in Arizona’s presidential preference elections.
