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Behind the Ballot: Challenge accepted
Numerous candidates have found themselves swept up in legal battles on their way to the ballot.
Elections officials mull criminal probes of forgeries
Elections officials said they will likely refer several campaigns that have been implicated for fraud and forgery to law enforcement for further investigation.
Big push on ballot referrals ends with just 2 passed
The Arizona Legislature referred two measures to the ballot this year, more than lawmakers referred in 2016 when they instead focused their attention on trying to defeat several citizen initiatives.
House Speaker open to ‘grand bargain’ over Voter Protection Act
A top Arizona legislator said he would be open to making it easier for the state’s voters to circumvent the Legislature and pass laws by way of the ballot in exchange for easing restrictions that prevent the Legislature from tweaking those same laws.
Investigator: No accountability for SOS elections blunder
An investigation has found the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office broke state law when it failed to mail publicity pamphlets on deadline to hundreds of thousands of voters during a 2016 special election, but did not act criminally.
Voucher expansion referendum makes ballot
With validation results in from Maricopa County, “it’s a mathematical guarantee” that the referendum on school voucher expansion in Arizona will make it to the 2018 ballot, Secretary of State Michele Reagan said in a tweet Tuesday.
2nd suit filed to thwart voucher-expansion referendum
School-choice groups filed a second lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court on August 24 in an attempt to block an opposing referendum campaign by Save Our Schools Arizona.
Pro-voucher lawyers say referendum petition identified non-existent legislative session
In a letter Friday to state Elections Director Eric Spencer, attorneys Thomas Basile and Tim La Sota, who represent interests seeking the expansion of the voucher program, contend all petitions are invalid because they said the law they seek to refer to voters was enacted during the “fifty-third session of the legislature.”
Observers keep eyes on signature validation process of voucher referendum
The process of verifying signatures to block a law expanding school vouchers has built up the scrutiny of Secretary of State Michele Reagan’s effort to be more transparent.
Voucher expansion on hold as effort to kill campaign begins
School voucher expansion legislation is on hold after Save Our Schools Arizona delivered, by the group’s count, 111,540 signatures today to refer the law to the 2018 general election ballot.
School group says it has enough signatures to put voucher law on hold
Save Our Schools Arizona claims to have collected enough signatures to temporarily halt the expansion of the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program.
State Election Director denies demanding voters be purged
A top staffer at the Arizona Secretary of State staff denied accusations made by county recorders earlier this week that the office ordered voter registrations to be cancelled without proper documentation.
