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Ninja report likely to spur election legislation
As the first reports of the Arizona Senate’s review of 2020 general election results in Maricopa County are released, progressive voting rights groups worry about how the findings will be used as the basis for legislation next session.
County wants Senate to pay $2.8M for voting machines
Maricopa County officials are sending a bill for $2.8 million to the state Senate to cover the cost of having to acquire new voting machines.
Audit Twitter accounts suspended, Bennett frozen out
When the Arizona audit began, the public had two avenues to receive information – former Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett and the Arizona Audit Twitter account – three months later, it has neither.
Election audit overshadows work in Senate
In some ways, the most important event of the 2021 legislative session didn’t even happen at the Capitol.
Visiting politicians at ‘Madhouse’ to see ‘first domino’
Delegates from roughly a dozen states have made the pilgrimage to Arizona in hopes of replicating the state Senate’s partisan election audit, but legal and political barriers will probably keep them from succeeding.
Some lawmakers want to eliminate voting machines
Some Republican lawmakers are considering long-term changes to how Arizonans’ votes are counted as the hand recount of Maricopa County’s 2.1 million ballots drags on at Veterans Memorial Coliseum more than six months after the election.
Fann threatens Maricopa County with more subpoenas
Senate President Karen Fann said lawmakers may have to take new steps -- including new subpoenas and possibly going back to court -- to get information that Maricopa County election officials are refusing to provide about their ballots and equipment.
GOP senators keep distance from election audit
With their ongoing audit, as with all discourse about the 2020 election, almost all Senate Republicans have fallen into one of two camps: banging the drum about election fraud claims believed by huge segments of their base, or ignoring the recount a few blocks north to focus on legislation.
Senate won’t pursue more subpoenas – for now
Senate Republican leaders are not going to subpoena Maricopa County supervisors, at least for the time being in the ongoing battle over information they want to conduct their audit of the 2020 general election.
Hobbs threatens more litigation over Senate audit
The state's top election officials is threatening to go to court unless the procedures being used by the Senate in its special ballot audit are changed.
Judge: Audit policies, procedures open to public
Arizonans are entitled to see the policies and procedures being used in the Senate's audit of the 2020 election returns, a judge has ruled.
Media to get day in court over Senate election audit
A judge on Tuesday said he has yet to be convinced that the rights of Maricopa County voters are being protected in the audit being conducted at the demand of the state Senate.
