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Attorney General Mark Brnovich hired a special investigator today to determine if Secretary of State Michele Reagan broke any laws in the just-completed special election.

The wife of Sen. Carlyle Begay is running to fill the Arizona Senate seat he’s vacating to run for Congress. Candace Begody-Begay, 28, filed nominating petitions on Wednesday morning to run for the Senate in Legislative District 7.

A report from Secretary of State Michele Reagan’s office inaccurately claimed that election officials asked a former contract employee how to compile a mailing list for publicity pamphlets for the May 17 special election, the ex-contractor said.

Secretary of State Michele Reagan said her office’s failure to mail about 200,000 publicity pamphlets for the recent special election occurred because its vendor failed to provide critical information.

Representatives of IBM say Michele Reagan is off the mark in blaming the tech giant for a high-profile blunder in which the office failed to send 200,000 publicity pamphlets for the May 17 special election, and that the secretary of state instead is to blame.

There’s a bitter primary brewing in Tempe’s Legislative District 26, but not the one politicos were expecting.

The special election on school funding and pensions this week saw none of the long lines and subsequent backlash that plagued Maricopa County in the March presidential preference election.

Ahead by nearly 16,800 votes and with ever-widening lead, it now appears Proposition 123 has been approved.

Secretary of State Michele Reagan has some harsh words for those who claim that office’s failure to mail 200,000 publicity pamphlets tilted the outcome of Tuesday’s special election in favor of Proposition 123. Her words are specifically for state Treasurer Jeff DeWit.

The effort to pass a measure aimed at providing $3.5 billion more for schools over 10 years struggled with unexpectedly low numbers throughout the campaign, according to internal polling data shared with the Arizona Capitol Times.