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Jan 26, 2024, 3:50AM MST

Longdon announces resignation from state House

The Democratic caucus in the state House of Representatives will soon be down another member after a Phoenix representative submitted her letter of resignation on Thursday. Rep. Jennifer Longdon, D-Phoenix, announced in her letter that she is resigning on Friday, 19 days since the start of the legislative session. “Serving Arizon[...]

Jan 11, 2024, 2:20AM MST

Court rejects Lake’s appeal in defamation case

Kari Lake can't escape having to convince a jury she didn't defame Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer. In a brief order Wednesday, the state Court of Appeals refused to hear arguments by the failed gubernatorial hopeful that anything she said about Richer and his role in the conduct of the 2022 election she lost to Katie Hobbs [...]

Jan 10, 2024, 12:18PM MST

LD8 nominates 3 for vacant House seat

Democrats in Legislative District 8 picked three candidates for consideration to fill a vacant seat in the state House of Representatives. On Tuesday night. Democratic precinct committeemen nominated Jevin Hodge, Jacob Raiford and Deborah Nardozzi as contenders to fill the seat formerly occupied by former Rep. Athena Salman, D-[...]

Jan 2, 2024, 10:55AM MST

Hamadeh makes new challenge to election loss

Rebuffed in prior legal attempts to overturn his loss in the race for attorney general, Abe Hamadeh now is trying to get a judge to declare that Kris Mayes is holding office illegally. But that doesn't mean, as he claims in new legal filings, that he will automatically replace her. In court documents, Hamadeh repeats his claims tha[...]

Dec 29, 2023, 11:00AM MST

Kolodin grills former justice on Election Day printer failures

An attorney for a failed candidate challenging the 2022 election results used his unrelated position as chairman of a legislative panel to elicit testimony Thursday from a former Supreme Court chief justice that ultimately could benefit his client in court. But the top legislative leader who appointed attorney Alexander Kolodin to[...]

Dec 20, 2023, 4:55PM MST

Richer’s defamation suit against Lake heading to trial

A defamation suit filed by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer against one-time gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake lives after a superior court judge found Lake’s statements could not be deemed “rhetorical hyperbole.” Judge Jay Adleman denied two motions to dismiss from Lake and found her claims were “provably false[...]

Nov 20, 2023, 3:52PM MST

Mohave County supervisors reject proposal to hand count ballots

The Mohave County Board of Supervisors voted against moving forward with a plan to hand count ballots, dodging assured litigation from the Attorney General’s Office. Mohave County is the latest in a string of counties to consider ditching tabulation machines to hand count ballots, despite lawsuits and an investigation by the [...]

Nov 16, 2023, 4:50PM MST

Attorney representing Lake in election challenge admits he might not have been qualified

Correction: Clarifies that the Discipline Probable Cause Committee is a committee of the Supreme Court. An attorney who has been representing Kari Lake in her attempts to overturn the election returns is admitting that he may not have been up to the job. In a letter to the State Bar of Arizona, Bryan Blehm said Lake's legal bid[...]

Oct 25, 2023, 9:30PM MST

Several candidates express interest in running for Lesko's seat in Congressional District 8

Update: Adds news that failed U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters has entered the race. Correction: This article has been corrected to state U.S. Reps Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar had a complaint filed against them requesting an investigation of their involvement with the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot. A slew of political cand[...]

Oct 24, 2023, 5:48PM MST

Task force approves elections policy recommendations despite Bennett's criticism of Hobbs' absence

A bipartisan task force headed by Gov. Katie Hobbs approved 16 policy and legislative recommendations Tuesday related to the controversial topic of elections policy. But one Republican member of the governor's Bipartisan Elections Task Force wasn’t pleased that Hobbs wasn’t present to vote on any of the recommendations. [...]

Oct 18, 2023, 5:55PM MST

Court rules counties can't hand-count all ballots in elections

Arizona counties are prohibited by law from hand-counting all ballots in an election, even if they want to do so because county leaders have bought into conspiracy theories that say vote tabulation machines are untrustworthy, the state Court of Appeals ruled. Wednesday's decision by the three-judge panel comes in an appeal bought [...]

Oct 16, 2023, 5:20PM MST

Court panel rejects Lake and Finchem's bid to block use of ballot tabulation, electronic voting machines

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously struck down former gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and former Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem’s bid to block the use of ballot tabulation machines and electronic voting machines in elections today. Lake and Finchem have long argued such machines are susceptible to ha[...]

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Longdon announces resignation from state House

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Richer’s defamation suit against Lake heading to trial

Mohave County supervisors reject proposal to hand count ballots

Attorney representing Lake in election challenge admits he might not have been qualified

Several candidates express interest in running for Lesko's seat in Congressional District 8

Task force approves elections policy recommendations despite Bennett's criticism of Hobbs' absence

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Court panel rejects Lake and Finchem's bid to block use of ballot tabulation, electronic voting machines

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