Republican legislators are moving to throw another roadblock in the path of people to make their own laws.

The Arizona Senate and House of Representatives adopted new rules packages on party lines this week that would expand the powers of the House speaker and Senate president and drastically reduce requirements for members to retain records.  

Arizona residents could have an impact on the ballot initiative process when they vote for two ballot measures that have been criticized for restricting the power of future citizen initiatives.

Gov. Doug Ducey and backers of universal school vouchers took a victory lap Tuesday over legislation the Republican-controlled Legislature enacted in June giving the state the nation's most expansive voucher system, and he also used the time to attack backers of public schools who are trying to block the measure at the ballot.

Arizona voters will face at least eight -- and likely as many as 11 -- proposals they get to approve or quash in November.

Republican lawmakers are asking Gov. Doug Ducey to sign a bill they concede has no practical effect. 

The Republican-controlled Arizona House on Monday joined the GOP-led state Senate in approving a measure that will ask voters in November to drastically boost identification requirements needed for in-person and mail voting in the battleground state.  Arizona already has very ...

The Arizona Republican Party is trying to kill the method of voting preferred by more than 80% of state residents.  Legal papers filed Friday ask the Arizona Supreme Court to conclude that there is nothing in the state constitution to ...

A bill to require ID for early mail-in voting passed the Senate Thursday with only Republican support.  Although voting in-person at the polls requires voters to present ID, early mail-in voting does not. A concurrent resolution to change this passed ...

Claiming their use is ripe for fraud, Republicans on a Senate panel voted Tuesday to require new security measures on drop boxes now available for people to deposit their early ballots.  The 6-4 party-line vote by the Appropriations Committee on ...