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Warren Petersen

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 10, 2021

Bill gives wrongfully convicted new chance at freedom

Arizonans who contend they were wrongfully convicted could get a new way of trying to exonerate themselves.

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.... […]

Feb 26, 2021

Half of this year’s bills died unceremoniously

By the February 19 deadline to hear bills in committees in their chambers of origin, more than 950 measures were left to die

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.

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Feb 15, 2021

Senate passes voucher expansion bill

Republican senators gave the go-ahead Monday for what could be a huge expansion in the use of tax dollars to send children to private and parochial schools.

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Feb 11, 2021

GOP lawmakers push bill to force hand of supervisors

Facing defeats in court, Republican lawmakers are moving to change the law -- retroactively -- in a bid to eventually get their hands on voting equipment and ballots, even if it takes months.

Feb 10, 2021

Senate approves measure to curb governor’s emergency powers

Republican senators voted Wednesday to curb the emergency powers of the governor, but do it in a way he can't veto.

Feb 8, 2021

Boyer kills Senate bid to force supervisors to comply with subpoenas

A Republican senator single-handedly killed a resolution that could have sent Maricopa county supervisors to jail, arguing that the Senate and the county need more time to reach a compromise over a proposed election audit.

Jan 26, 2021

County supervisors to approve audits of election equipment

Maricopa County supervisors are set to approve two separate audits of election equipment Wednesday in a bid to satisfy questions about security and the 2020 results -- and avoid further litigation with the state Senate.

Jan 25, 2021

GOP lawmaker urges colleagues not to end Covid restrictions

As a Senate panel prepares to vote on legislation that would immediately end Gov. Doug Ducey’s Covid-caused state of emergency, an influential House Republican and legislative attorneys are warning it would have unintended consequences.

Jan 13, 2021

Court reluctant to enforce Senate subpoenas

State senators won't get the trove of election materials they are demanding, at least not yet – if ever.

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