Arizona
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Recorder Justin Heap Is Trying to Regain His Office from the Maricopa County Supervisors’ ‘Attempt to Undermine Election Integrity’
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Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, an election integrity champion, has been unsuccessfully trying to regain control of his duties over early and mail-in voting, which the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS) reduced before he assumed office this year. Heap attempted to renegotiate the Shared Services Agreement (SSA) with the MCBOS without success this year,…
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Arizona Legislature Files Amicus Curiae Brief at Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Supporting Idaho’s Voter ID Law
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The Arizona Legislature, along with 19 other states, submitted an amicus curiae brief at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week supporting Idaho’s voter ID law, which prohibits student ID cards as an acceptable form of identification for voting. A lower court judge appointed by former President Joe Biden, Amanda K. Brailsford, already ruled…
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Election Integrity Group Finds Laws Were Broken in Maricopa County’s 2020 Election, Including 200,000 Mismatched Signatures
We the People AZ Alliance (WPAA) issued a video earlier this month going over problems with the signature verification on ballot affidavits from the botched 2020 election. The alliance has been investigating voting irregularities in Maricopa County in recent elections. WPAA found that out of 1.9 million ballots, 10 percent or about 200,000 had “egregiously”…
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Maricopa County Supervisors Provide Draft Agreement to Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap Purporting to Give Some of His Office Back
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS) held a special public meeting on Wednesday to discuss a Shared Services Agreement (SSA) drafted by the MCBOS to give Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap some of his job responsibilities back. The previous MCBOS, even though it was in lame duck status at the end of their term,…
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Governor Katie Hobbs Continues Record for Vetoes, Rejects Arizona ICE Act, Bills on Election Integrity, and Bills Against Vaccine Mandates
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Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a large portion of the bills sent to her this session by the Republican dominated Arizona Legislature. So far this year, she vetoed 52 and signed 70 into law. The bills she signed were mostly mundane, with bipartisan support. She signed the controversial Axon bill, which carved out a zoning exception…
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Election Integrity Group Discovers Maricopa County Signature Verification in 2024 Occurred at ‘World Book Record’ Speed
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The election integrity organization We the People AZ Alliance (WPAA), which discovered in 2022 that Maricopa County ballot affidavit reviewers were verifying signatures at speeds of up to one signature per second, revealed in a new video this week that reviewers during the 2024 election also verified signatures at a similarly rapid pace. The group alleged that AI…
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Lawsuit Forces All 15 Arizona Counties to Begin Removing Noncitizens from Voter Rolls
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All 15 of Arizona’s counties agreed to settle a lawsuit brought last September by America First Legal (AFL) and election attorney Jennifer Wright against their recorders over failing to remove noncitizens from voter rolls. Maricopa County agreed to the settlement earlier this month, Yavapai and Mohave counties settled in November, and the remaining counties settled…
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Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes Sue Trump Administration Over Election Integrity Executive Order
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Attorney General Kris Mayes joined Secretary of State Adrian Fontes in a lawsuit filed with 19 other Democratic-run states against the Trump administration challenging his executive order on election integrity measures for allegedly intruding on state sovereignty. However, Democratic officials supported HR 1, a 2021 bill in Congress that would federalize elections, and President Joe…
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Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Approves Settlement in Lawsuit Over Non-Citizens Voting, Will Cooperate with Trump Administration
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The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors agreed on Thursday to settle a lawsuit filed by America First Legal (AFL) against Maricopa County over failing to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls. The lawsuit, which was also filed against other counties, asked the court to order county recorders to comply. The settlement will have Maricopa County…
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Representative Abe Hamadeh Proposes Bill to Halt Funding to States that Print Federal Ballots in Other Languages
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Representative Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ-08) recently introduced The VOTE Act — Voting Only Through English — in Congress, which would halt funding to states for federal elections that print ballots in additional languages besides English. Voters who don’t understand English can call official election hotlines for language assistance, so the multilingual ballots are not necessary. Hamadeh…
