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Arizona election results delayed after a long ballot and a court …
6 days ago · Maricopa County says it’s taking double the usual time to process the two-page ballot, and other counties were slow to report Election Day results. Election workers open 2024 election ballots at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix, Arizona, on Nov. 5. Maricopa’s two-page ballot took longer than anticipated to ...
Maricopa County is Ground Zero for election misinformation in 2024
Nov 4, 2024 · By: Caitlin Sievers - November 4, 2024 8:25 am. Illustration via Getty Images. Disinformation and misinformation about the Nov. 5 election have reached a fever pitch, and Maricopa County is right at the center of it. Election officials and experts, as well as people devoted to fighting election falsehoods, are worried that their ubiquity this ...
Hoax Russian bomb threats target four AZ polling sites, officials say
Nov 5, 2024 · Arizona is one of several states where polling places have received bomb threats that the FBI is saying originated from Russia. “As for bomb threats in Arizona, they pertained to four specific locations in Navajo County only,” Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said in a press briefing Tuesday afternoon.Fontes called the …
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5 days ago · BY: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy - November 8, 2024. The Arizona Court of Appeals upheld the anti-dark-money law that voters approved in 2022, ruling Friday that it was constitutional to force disclosure of the source of political spending. This is the second legal victory for backers of the Voters Right to Know Act, which voters approved two years ago ...
Court of Appeals: Arizona's law requiring disclosure or 'dark …
5 days ago · The legal challenge, brought by the anti-abortion advocacy group Center for Arizona Policy and the Arizona Free Enterprise Club, a dark money nonprofit, argued that mandating disclosure of the source of political spending violates the Arizona Constitution’s protections of free speech, association, privacy and separation of powers.
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Oct 31, 2024 · BY: John Mitman - October 10, 2024. In Arizona, a state blessed with abundant sunshine, the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) holds a crucial role in shaping the future of solar energy. This independent regulatory body influences policies that directly impact how solar energy is adopted, integrated, and managed across the state.
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Oct 30, 2024 · BY: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy - October 28, 2024. Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes on Monday defended his decision to withhold the names of 218,000 voters who are improperly registered to vote from conservative and Trump-aligned groups seeking the data. “I don’t want blood on my hands,” Fontes said during a hearing in Maricopa County ...
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Oct 28, 2024 · BY: Arizona Mirror Staff - October 25, 2024. The Arizona Mirror took home eight awards in the inaugural Arizona Media Association Better Newspapers Contest, leading its division in the number of honors in 2024. The Mirror, which has been covering Arizona politics and government since 2018, took home awards for its coverage of abortion, Kari ...
SCOTUS: Arizona may require proof of citizenship on state voter …
Aug 22, 2024 · State law requires people to show proof of citizenship to register to vote, which voters approved as Proposition 200 in 2004. But the federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993 requires states to accept federal voter registration forms, which don’t have a proof-of-citizenship requirement, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that Arizona can’t reject those forms, despite the ...