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The people who Diane Douglas said are from the “ivory towers” are eager to meet with her and find out the rest of her ideas besides repealing Common Core.

Former suburban school board member Diane Douglas narrowly won the race to become Arizona's top education official after running a one-issue campaign to repeal the Common Core education standards.

Attorney general-elect Mark Brnovich named a four-person transition team that includes some of his earliest supporters.

Former suburban school board member Diane Douglas narrowly won the race to become Arizona's top education official after running a one-issue campaign to repeal the Common Core education standards.

Election workers across Arizona are still tallying ballots as three major races remain unsettled. The races for the 2nd Congressional District, superintendent of public instruction and a statewide ballot measure about federal government overreach remain too close to call.

It appears the two outgoing Corporation Commissioners Gary Pierce and Brenda Burns will be replaced by Republicans Tom Forese and Doug Little, who each have 28.5 percent of the vote, with 35 percent of precincts reporting.

Proposition 122, which advocates tout as a measure that will help Arizonans resist unconstitutional or otherwise overreaching actions by the federal government, has a healthy lead and appears poised to pass.

In a race that many expected to come down to the wire, Republican Sen. Michele Reagan defeated Terry Goddard by a healthy margin in the race for secretary of state, dashing one of the Democrats’ best hopes of winning a statewide office for the first time since 2006.

Mark Brnovich’s supporters in the Republican primary cast him as the best hope of keeping the Attorney General’s Office in GOP hands following years of scandal from incumbent Tom Horne. The former prosecutor delivered on that optimism as he defeated Democrat Felecia Rotellini in one of Arizona’s most hard-fought statewide contests.

Doug Ducey won Arizona’s first wide-open gubernatorial race in 12 years, cruising to election as the state’s 23rd governor.