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Senate

Mar 15, 2021

Senate must do audit right or not at all

Any audit must follow existing Arizona requirements, be impartial, and protect voters’ privacy. If the Senate cannot abide by those requirements, it should drop its subpoena and move on from the 2020 election.

Mar 11, 2021

Borrelli badgers woman over ballots, ridicules Republicans

The Arizona Senate’s Republican whip attempted to pressure a woman who went dumpster-diving for ballots into handing documents she found over to him instead of law enforcement and implied both of them could be killed for trying to expose fraud.

Mar 8, 2021

Senate moves to restrict early voting

Republican senators are moving on two fronts to erect new hurdles in the path of those who want to vote early.

Mar 8, 2021

Lawmakers in negotiation on $1B in tax cuts, flat income tax

House Majority Leader Ben Toma, R-Peoria, said that while the details are still in flux, he believes support exists for the idea of phasing in a flat income tax over three or four years. He said he would like to see the rate around 2.5%.

Mar 5, 2021

Senate mulls next step in auditing 2.1M ballots

Pallets of ballots sit on trucks in Phoenix as senators figure out what to do next, three months after they declared they wanted their own audit of the presidential election.... […]

Mar 1, 2021

Senate changes rules to allow votes cast remotely

The Senate changed its rules to allow people who have tested positive for Covid to vote from home, setting aside constitutional concerns after a Republican contracted the disease.

Feb 26, 2021

Court gives Senate access to election equipment, appeal expected

State senators are entitled to access to voting equipment and ballots used in the November election, a judge ruled Friday.

Feb 25, 2021

Judge to rule on senate subpoenas

The question of whether state senators get access to Maricopa County's voting equipment and ballots could turn on the question of whether they dotted their i's and crossed their t's.

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Feb 24, 2021

Senate bill to outlaw certain abortions gets tentative approval

State senators voted Wednesday to make abortions illegal if the woman is seeking to terminate the pregnancy because of a genetic abnormality of the fetus.

Feb 23, 2021

Senate votes to add county supervisors in Maricopa, Pima

Residents of the state's two largest counties could find themselves with more people to call when something goes wrong. But it will cost them.

Feb 23, 2021

County election equipment deemed free of tampering

An audit of the Maricopa County voting equipment came up absolutely clean according to county officials.

Feb 16, 2021

GOP senators take revenge on Boyer

A small group of Senate Republicans on Tuesday sought to punish one of their GOP colleagues for killing their legislation by voting to claw back one of his bills from the House.

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