Putin is powerless to change the most important fact of all. Ukraine’s declaration of independence was not a technical act by an old Soviet-era legislature and kept in place by force, like his own regime. It came via the ballot box from the hearts of tens of millions of Ukrainians, where the invading Russian army cannot reach and every bullet fired will only strengthen the resolve for separation from the oppressor.

The Arizona Legislature is apparently done paying lip service to protecting voter access. A number of extreme bills that will upend Arizona’s well-functioning election system are rocketing through the Legislature. One standout in a crowded field of anti-democratic legislation, HB2492, ...

The Republican-controlled Arizona House on Monday joined the GOP-led state Senate in approving a measure that will ask voters in November to drastically boost identification requirements needed for in-person and mail voting in the battleground state.  Arizona already has very ...

The Arizona Republican Party is trying to kill the method of voting preferred by more than 80% of state residents.  Legal papers filed Friday ask the Arizona Supreme Court to conclude that there is nothing in the state constitution to ...

A bill to require ID for early mail-in voting passed the Senate Thursday with only Republican support.  Although voting in-person at the polls requires voters to present ID, early mail-in voting does not. A concurrent resolution to change this passed ...

Republican state senators on Monday advanced legislation that would require every ballot cast in Arizona’s elections to be counted by hand, with GOP proponents who embraced former President Donald Trump’s false narrative of massive voter fraud calling it a needed ...

A coalition of community groups is asking Arizona voters to overturn a series of restrictions on registration and voting already enacted and those now being contemplated this year by the Republican-controlled legislature.  Arizonans for Free and Fair Elections has taken ...

The Senate government committee on party-line vote Monday moved forward a bill to create state holidays on primary and general election day and would also repeal Arizona counties’ authority to establish early voting operations.  According to SB1474, sponsored by Sen. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa, ...

Millions of Arizonans would lose the right to vote early and by mail under the terms of legislation approved Monday by a Senate panel.  SB1404 would scrap longstanding law that allow any registered voter to request a ballot by mail, ...

A House panel voted Wednesday after heated debate to prohibit election officials from accepting already filled-out early ballots at polling places unless voters first provide identification.  The party-line 7-6 vote by the Republican-dominated House Committee on Government and Elections came ...