A campaign finance bill moving through the Arizona Legislature was touted as a routine housecleaning measure to simplify the state's complicated election regulations.
Read More »Reagan to stop enforcing election attack notification law
Secretary of State Michele Reagan is no longer going to enforce a law designed to give targets of last-minute political “hit pieces” time to respond.
Read More »GOP lawmakers pass election-related voting, spending bills
Arizona Republican legislators advanced several election-related bills Wednesday that Democrats say would limit voter participation and open the doors to heavier spending to influence elections by deep-pocketed donors.
Read More »GOP passes bills with elements from repealed election law 
Republican lawmakers have approved key provisions of a sweeping Arizona election law that the Legislature abandoned last year after opponents took steps to repeal it.
Read More »State seeks stay of campaign finance ruling 
The Arizona Attorney General’s Office asked a federal judge to stay a recent bombshell ruling that threatens the state’s ability to enforce all of its campaign disclosure laws.
Read More »Governor signs bill to repeal 2013 election reform law, kills referendum
It's official: Arizonans won't get the last word on a series of controversial changes in state election law. Without comment, Gov. Jan Brewer signed legislation Thursday to repeal the 2013 law. More to the point, by repealing the law the governor killed the referendum drive that had held up enactment until the voters made the final decision.
Read More »Federal, state laws at odds on lobbyist political contributions 
To curtail the inappropriate influence of money in politics, Arizona law prohibits lobbyists from contributing to lawmakers’ campaign committees while the Legislature is in session.
Read More »Judge’s ruling could create PAC ‘free-for-all’ 
Every law regulating ballot measure campaigns, political action committees and possibly even candidates’ campaign committees in Arizona may soon be wiped from the books, at least until the Legislature can write new ones.
Read More »Election law referendum organizers say they’re ‘on track,’ opponents skeptical 
The deadline is approaching fast but organizers of a citizen referendum drive against a wide-ranging elections bill say they’re on track to get enough signatures to put HB2305 on the 2014 ballot.
Read More »Elections law supporters start second committee to defend it 
The referendum effort against the state’s controversial new election law is now facing a two-pronged opposition, as a second political action committee filed paperwork this week to fight the referendum.
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