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Maricopa hit 99% counted in 27 hours after the primary, a clear throughput gain tied to an ID-present option that kept 23,000 early ballots out of the post-election queue. Now the county owes taxpayers the ledger: costs, hours, and unit results. The same rigor should guide the $-
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Most incumbents advanced, but progressives ousted Democratic Reps. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton and Lydia Hernandez in safe blue districts, trading a veteran budget negotiator for new left-flank voices. A new optional ballot drop-off with ID drew more than 6,000 users in Pima, hintng
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Hobbs declined a head-to-head with Biggs, who now says he will attend an Oct. 6 Clean Elections debate. With abortion polling and DHS's election-season assurance on ICE in the background, Arizona voters are being asked to accept more message control and fewer unscripted tests.
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Biggs' pick of Sine Kerr signals a rural-water focus while Arizona stares at a potential $208 million SNAP cost share and a data-center subsidy hangover. The next administration's math on error rates, utility cost shifts, and WIFA outcomes will decide who pays.
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A party-line Senate panel opened an ethics investigation into Sen. Catherine Miranda in 2017 over an unchecked box on a voucher referendum petition. One Republican admitted he had the motions written before the hearing started. Six months later the chairwoman dismissed it. Almost nobody wrote the ending.
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The Recorder, Board of Supervisors, and Elections Department split the work. Confusion about those desks is how bad claims spread.
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Kolodin won the GOP nod for Secretary of State. Now the race turns on whether voters get plans and metrics, or just labels and slogans.
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Kimberly Yee's reported 55 percent lead over Tom Horne with a margin above 32,000 votes came despite heavier spending against her, including a nearly $200,000 out-of-state ad that used racial imagery, according to the Arizona Globe. The money did not buy a lead, and the pass-thru
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After three failed preemption pushes and a raft of lawsuits, builders, landlords and mobile home operators poured money into Arizona's primaries, backing legislative allies and Warren Petersen for AG. The checks are big. The results voters want will come only if November winners,
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Five legislative contests clarified by the primary now look decisive for control of the narrowly divided Arizona House and Senate in November.
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House Republicans jammed voter ID to a curb on congressional stock trading. Clever politics, sloppy governing. Arizona has its own trust test: concede the AG primary and make the case to voters.
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Gov. Katie Hobbs banned Arizona executive branch employees from using nonpublic information to wager on prediction markets, as a federal judge blocked the state's criminal case against Kalshi. The shift puts ethics enforcement, not prosecutions, at the center of Arizona's next-m0
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Homeland Security's threats to jail election officials over noncitizen voters lack a clear legal path, experts told Cronkite News. Arizona's recent court wins and audit history point to federal overreach, not imminent prosecutions.
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AP calls GOP secretary of state primary for Alex Kolodin as close statewide and legislative races signal a long, resource-heavy count heading into November.
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Arizona's GOP treasurer primary turned sharply personal heading into Tuesday's vote. The barbs mask a core question with real stakes for taxpayers: who sets the state's risk posture and who actually runs the shop day to day.
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A national warning about mass voter challenges, an open-seat fight in LD7, and a federal H-1B crackdown are converging on Arizona's ledgers. The costs will show up in paperwork, timelines, and outcomes that can be measured.
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LD27's GOP Senate primary has become a referendum on automated license plate readers. With no statewide rules in place, the Payne, Kern split will shape whether Arizona imposes guardrails or rejects expanded surveillance at the Capitol.
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The Biggs-Schweikert primary is really an argument about whether Arizona Republicans can turn intensity into a statewide majority.
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BallotBot may help voters, but an official AI assistant should come with public testing, visible limits, and post-election performance data.
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Sheriff Jerry Sheridan says he did not know LD10 candidate Ciara Anderson had a Bad Conduct Discharge when he endorsed her.
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Arizona Mirror reports the BoaVida Group, sued by AG Kris Mayes after heat-wave outages, is now the largest donor to a PAC backing Warren Petersen for AG.
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A report that ICE agents have shot at 22 people this term, most during traffic stops, raises immediate questions for Arizona about cooperation, oversight, and basic transparency.
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Progressive group LUCHA is training hundreds of volunteer poll observers to watch Arizona vote centers, as DOJ plans federal monitors and counties emphasize the 75-foot rule and de-escalation.
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Trump warned of foreign election meddling without offering proof, the Arizona Mirror reports. A day later, DHS threatened prosecutions, raising federalism questions for Arizona while offering little actionable guidance so far.
