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Senate moves mail-in voting ID bill to House
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... […]
GOP-led Arizona Senate panel votes to hand-count all ballots
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... […]
Activists plan ballot measure to combat voting curbs
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... […]
Holiday status may be on tap for election days
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... […]
Senate committee clamps down on early voting
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... […]
Heated debate propels voter ID bill out of House committee
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... […]
Why the right is so wrong
When a political party that touted family values turns a blind eye to truth and goodness, the reality is not only sad, but terrifying. With a wink and a nod,... […]
Sinema, Manchin prove there’s still a long way to go
The Black community owes a debt of gratitude to United States Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin. The dynamic duo have managed, by supporting the filibuster and crippling two major... […]
MLK III comes to Phoenix, slams Sinema over filibuster
Martin Luther King III came to Arizona with harsh words for Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, whose refusal to change the Senate’s Jim Crow-era filibuster rules makes voting rights legislation unlikely... […]
E-Qual updates flummoxing 2022 candidates
Problems in the system for candidates to qualify for the ballot with online signatures may leave some of them out of the 2022 race. And the people most at risk... […]
Time runs out for challenge to new election laws at ballot
Arizonans are not going to be able to override a series of changes in voting law approved earlier this year by the Republican-controlled legislature.
H.R. 1 is bad news for Arizona voters
The United States of America is the greatest democratic experiment in human history. Maintaining that status depends on a free, fair, and transparent electoral process – the foundation on which... […]
