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Election 2012 News

Aug 27, 2012

Flake endorses Worsley over Pearce

U.S Rep. Jeff Flake has thrown his weight behind businessman Bob Worsley, who is seeking to prevent former senator Russell Pearce from returning to the Legislature.

Aug 27, 2012

GOP race for Senate headlines Arizona primary

Arizona's primary election Tuesday features a spirited race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate and heated contests for several U.S. House seats, with outcomes that will set the roster of candidates for the Nov. 6 general election.

Aug 27, 2012

US Justice Department to monitor Arizona elections

The U.S. Justice Department has announced that it will monitor primary elections in Arizona's Maricopa County.

Aug 27, 2012

Lawmakers forced to choose between primary and GOP convention

Primary season has already done what hurricane season is only threatening to do: Driven some party members away from next week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.

Aug 27, 2012

New voting rules could make it harder than ever to get Latinos to the polls

Every month for the next two decades, 50,000 Latinos will turn 18 years old. With that many new eligible voters, and dramatic population growth expected, Latinos could dominate voting in the Southwest, particularly Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center.

Aug 27, 2012

Arizona son, mother aim to be statehouse colleagues

Ken Cheuvront and his mother, Jean Cheuvront-McDermott, are hoping to go into business together ai??i?? the politics business.

Aug 27, 2012

Arizona delegates to GOP convention are waiting, but not worrying about storms

The threat of a hurricane may have upended the schedule for the Republican National Convention, but the coming rains did not appear to worry Arizona delegates as they arrived in Tampa this weekend.

Aug 27, 2012

Primary will decide nearly a third of the Legislature

Once the Aug. 28 primary results are tallied, 29 of Arizona’s 90 legislative races will be decided.

Nine Senate candidates already have a guaranteed seat. Two more Senate seats and 18 House seats will be won after the primary because only candidates from one party are competing, so whoever wins the primary can start measuring their legislative office drapes.

Aug 25, 2012

Tobin outraises his opponents in District 1

House Speaker Andy Tobin easily outraised his party-mates in the three-way House primary in Northern Arizona, the latest finance reports filed with the Secretary of State showed.

Aug 25, 2012

Flake Endorses Adams for congressional seat

Congressional District 5 GOP hopeful Kirk Adams received a last-minute boost from Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Flake today when Flake endorsed Adams over his primary election opponent, former U.S. Rep. Matt Salmon.

Aug 24, 2012

Open Government Committee sues to put top-two initiative on ballot

Supporters of a proposed initiative to create a “top-two” primary elections system allege that Maricopa County election officials improperly invalidated hundreds of petition signatures and are going to court in a bid to get the Open Elections/Open Government Act on the November ballot.

Aug 24, 2012

2 GOP candidates dig deep into own pockets to secure Senate primary win

The Senate race in rural Legislative District 5 has become a high-dollar affair, with two Republican candidates collectively pumping in nearly $80,000 of their own money since June to bolster their attempts to win election.

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