Arizona voters broke the gender barrier in 1998 when they voted five women into statewide elected office and turned the state into the first in the nation to have an all-female elected line of succession.
Read More »People with disabilities must exercise their right to vote
Justin Dart, the man often considered the father of the Americans with Disabilities Act, famously and repeatedly said: “Vote as if your life depends on it – because it DOES!” For people with disabilities, this is especially true. Every policy decision from employment, to housing and transportation, to funding of programs like CHIP, Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid are influenced by whom we elect.
Read More »FEC fines 3 dark money groups over cash from Arizona operative 
The Federal Election Commission levied nearly a quarter-million dollars’ worth of fines against three dark money groups for failing to report contributions from an organization run by Sean Noble after the Arizona political operative inadvertently disclosed the alleged violations in a 2014 interview.
Read More »Complaint with IRS highlights SB1516 ‘dark money’ enforcement issues 
A complaint filed with the Internal Revenue Service against a “dark money” group that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in the 2014 governor’s race appears to provide a stark example of the way new campaign finance laws could bar Arizona election officials from punishing a violation, even when it’s right in front of their faces.
Read More »Judge may rule on claims of Arizona voter suppression
A U.S. district court judge may decide two critical issues in Arizona before the November presidential election: whether to stop the state’s new so-called “ballot harvesting” law from taking effect and whether to force elections officials to count out-of-precinct provisional ballots.
Read More »FBI interviews former Corp Comm chairman, Corp Comm staff in 2014 election probe
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation today interviewed former Arizona Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce and Corporation Commission staffers as part of a probe into the 2014 elections.
Read More »Green Party fails to meet deadline for naming presidential electors
Arizonans who don’t like the other choices for president this year won’t get a chance to vote instead for the Green Party nominee.
Read More »Solicitor general rejects bid to jump the gun on campaign signs
Candidates are not going to get an extra month or so ahead of primary elections to put up their campaign signs.
Read More »Reagan’s office skips election manual 
Secretary of State Michele Reagan did not compile a new election procedures manual for the 2016 cycle, perhaps the first time in decades, if not longer, that the office did not release the biennial publication that instructs county and local officials on the conduct of elections.
Read More »Yes, all the expected incumbents filed
With the dust settled after yesterday’s deadline to submit nominating petitions, it appears as though 219 candidates have filed to run for legislative, statewide and federal offices. There are 7 statewide candidates (a low figure, but there are only three Corp Comm seats on the ballot this year), 171 legislative candidates and 41 federal candidates.
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