The state's top election official has agreed to remove a series of hurdles now in the path of those who want to register to vote.

The Arizona Board of Regents voted yesterday settle claims by the Arizona Students Association that it illegally retaliated against the organization.

The Arizona Students' Association is scaling back as it faces the impact of recently signed legislation but says it will continue to advocate on behalf of university students.

A group of Arizona university students, including Rep. Paul Boyer, R-Phoenix, filed a motion in federal court this week asking to intervene in a lawsuit to reinstate a fee on students to support a non-profit group. The five intervening students are represented by the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix.

Student groups won't be able to use student fees collected by universities to support political causes under a bill passed by the Arizona House.

Tuition bills for students at Arizona’s three universities will no longer include a $2 fee to fund a politically active, non-profit group.

The bills will contain a check box instead allowing students to contribute voluntarily to the Arizona Students Association, a group that advocates on student issues and lobbies at the Legislature.

The Arizona Board of Regents decided Monday not to levy a fee against university students next semester to fund a politically active non-profit group.

The Arizona Board of Regents is leaning towards abolishing a student fee that funds a politically active non-profit that contributed $126,806 for the passage of Proposition 204.