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Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich (Photo by Katie Campbell/Arizona Capitol Times)
Nov 14, 2017

Attorney general says counties can maintain own voter rolls

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich says county election officials can maintain separate voter databases but are legally required to send voter information to the secretary of state's office.

Michele Reagan at her 2015 inauguration (Photo by Evan Wyloge/Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting)
Mar 22, 2017

State election chief seeks new funds for hobbled campaign finance website overhaul

After spending $494,000 in 2015 and 2016 to create a new campaign finance reporting website that never saw the light of day, the Arizona Secretary of State is now asking the Citizens’ Clean Election Commission to pay $200,000 of an estimated $462,000 cost to develop a new campaign finance website.

Jul 5, 2016

Possible hack shuts down online portal to public campaign financing

A computer problem -- possibly a hack -- has resulted in more than a dozen candidates for statewide and legislative office facing an unexpected hurdle in their bid to get public financing.

Michele Reagan
May 10, 2016

Reagan won’t cancel next week’s special election

Secretary of State Michele Reagan won’t cancel next week’s special election even though her office failed to mail out on time more than 200,000 pamphlets with details of what’s on the ballot.

Oct 30, 2015

Clean Elections approves dark money rule

After nearly six months of debate and numerous revisions, the Citizens Clean Elections Commission approved a rule change that could force some dark money organizations to disclose their contributors.

Jan 13, 2015

Candidates could keep addresses secret under Townsend proposal

A GOP lawmaker wants to allow candidates to keep their home addresses secret, an effort that could make it more difficult to verify that an elected official or candidate for office lives in the district they claim to represent.

Sen. Michele Reagan, R-Scottsdale, chairs the Senate Election Committee. (Cronkite News Service Photo by AJ Vicens)
Dec 18, 2014

Reagan names top staffers for Secretary of State’s Office

Michele Reagan announced who will serve as the top staffers in her administration at the Secretary of State’s Office.

Secretary of State Ken Bennett and Gov. Jan Brewer sign the 2014 election canvass, triggering the recount in Arizona's 2nd Congressional District. (Photo by Evan Wyloge/Arizona Capitol Times)
Dec 1, 2014

CD2 voters challenge recount procedures

A collection of Pima and Cochise County voters sued Arizona’s top election official on Monday, claiming that the secretary of state’s planned method for conducting a recount in Congressional District 2 was in violation of state law.

Oct 30, 2014

Late with your early ballot? Here are tips for making sure your vote is counted

Like 60 percent of Arizona voters, Jeff McMahon, a Democrat from Tempe, is on Arizona’s permanent early voting list. Unlike a large percentage of early voters, McMahon is vigilant about walking his early ballot to the post office at least a couple of weeks before Election Day.

Oct 14, 2013

Dual lists, dueling officials

Conflicting policies likely to produce headaches as elections approach

Attorney General Tom Horne says he suspects the few voters who didn’t prove their citizenship when they registered with federal forms are in the U.S. illegally.

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne attends the official election canvass approval signing at the Historic Senate Chambers at the Capitol, Monday Dec. 3, 2012, in Phoenix. Horne is being investigated by the State Bar over allegations stemming from an investigation into alleged campaign finance violations. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Oct 7, 2013

Legal action likely over opinion creating two classes of voters

Arizona’s new policy of having separate voter rolls for people who didn’t provide proof of citizenship when registering is likely to stir up a lawsuit before the 2014 elections.

Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett waits to testify before the the Senate Judiciary Committee as Senate Democrats and Republicans spar over whether voter ID laws, attempts to purge voter rolls and restricted early voting were legitimate efforts to stop fraud or Republican strategies to hold down Democratic votes, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Sep 19, 2013

Changes in Arizona’s resign-to-run law unmuzzle candidates

Recent changes to Arizona's "resign-to-run" law mean current officeholders can now speak publicly about running for another office without having to use wiggle words, and Secretary of State Ken Bennett has taken advantage of the revisions that went into effect last week to say he will be a Republican candidate for governor next year.

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