Legislative Republicans are working to outlaw ranked choice voting despite the fact the practice isn’t used in Arizona.

The Arizona Freedom Caucus wants to preemptively prohibit any use of ranked choice voting to decide city, state, county or federal elections, Republican lawmakers in the caucus said Wednesday morning at a news conference in the state Senate building.

House Republicans have filed two competing bills that determine age requirements for public offices.  

A legislative panel that is looking into border security skirted a nagging question at a meeting this morning – what to do with roughly $260,000 that was raised to build a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Nearly three years after lawmakers started soliciting public donations to build a portion of fence along Arizona’s border with Mexico, lawmakers still don’t have a plan to build a fence with the $264,028 they have received.

The 2012 election isn’t even done yet, but a lot of buzz is being generated around the next governor’s race.

Sen. Steve Smith is planning to introduce a bill that would tie performance to pay for K-12 teachers.