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Election 2014

Sep 15, 2014

Confusing letters flood voters in Pima County

Thousands of Pima County voters opened their mailboxes this election cycle to find a letter stating that records show they are not registered to vote, even when they are.

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Sep 12, 2014

Independent voters went Republican in primary, stoking calls to change system

Arizona voters are increasingly ditching partisan affiliation, allowing them to vote in any primary they want. In 2014, they wanted to influence Republican races by more than 2-to-1.

Sep 12, 2014

Andy Tobin to give national GOP radio address

National Republicans are helping raise the profile of Arizona congressional candidate Andy Tobin by picking him to deliver the GOP's national radio address Saturday.

Sep 12, 2014

Big spending in closely watched CD2

The rematch between U.S. Rep. Ron Barber and retired Air Force Col. Martha McSally has lived up to its billing as one of the country’s most closely watched races in at least one capacity — outside spending.

Mesa Mayor Scott Smith faces reporters while formally filing paperwork to run for Arizona Governor. (Photo by Evan Wyloge/Arizona Capitol Times)
Sep 12, 2014

Clean Elections to investigate anti-Smith group

The Citizens Clean Elections Commission voted unanimously to follow its executive director’s recommendation that it move forward with an investigation into a group that ran ads against former Mesa Mayor Scott Smith during his gubernatorial campaign.

Sep 12, 2014

434% turnout? More ballots counted than voters live in some areas

Overall voter turnout in Arizona’s primary election barely surpassed 27 percent, but in a few voting precincts in northern Arizona, turnout was much higher — impossibly high, in fact.

Sep 12, 2014

Leadership roundup: Gowan says he has votes to be speaker

Away from the media limelight, another political race is shaping up that will have tremendous repercussions for the Legislature’s actions in 2015.

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne listens to opening arguments from Yavapai Deputy County Attorney Benjamin Kreutzberg, in a hearing into allegations that Horne and political ally Kathleen Winn, violated campaign finance laws. (Photo by Tom Tingle/The Arizona Republic)
Sep 12, 2014

Clean Elections finds reasonable cause that Horne broke campaign laws

The Citizens Clean Elections Commission determined Sept. 11 that it had reason to believe Attorney General Tom Horne violated campaign finance laws by failing to report staffer time and office space as in-kind contributions to his campaign.

Sep 11, 2014

Ducey, DuVal big on vision, light on specifics in first debate

Republican Doug Ducey and Democrat Fred DuVal had a lot to say about what they wouldn’t do if elected governor, but were short on details on what they would do about some of the biggest issues they’d face as the state’s top elected official.

J. Johnson, one of several write-in candidates for governor, said he’s running because his wife told him to stop griping about politics and do something about it. (Cronkite News Photo by Megan Guthrie)
Sep 10, 2014

Against long odds, write-in candidates seek governor’s office

A write-in candidate has never been elected governor of Arizona, and the odds are long that one ever will be. But don’t tell J. Johnson that.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (Photo by Josh Coddington/Arizona Capitol Times)
Sep 10, 2014

Brewer’s pre-debate advice to Ducey and DuVal: ‘Don’t pause.’

Gov. Jan Brewer has some advice for Fred DuVal and Doug Ducey as they face off in their series of gubernatorial debates.

Sep 10, 2014

Arizona Chamber endorses Garcia for schools superintendent

The state’s major business advocacy organization today endorsed Democrat David Garcia’s bid to become the next schools superintendent, snubbing Republican Diane Douglas.

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