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County election officials are asking Arizona lawmakers to change state law in a special session to prevent them from missing ironclad election administration deadlines or disenfranchising overseas voters.

To avoid possible havoc created by a revised recount law for elections, lawmakers need to act by early February, election officials say.

Election directors are meeting with Gov. Katie Hobbs and Arizona’s legislative leaders to talk about potential solutions, such as changing the primary election date.

Election officials in Arizona are pushing Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and state lawmakers to hold a special legislative session to correct what they see as a potentially impossible timeline for next year’s presidential election resulting from new federal and state laws

A measure to heavily document each step of a ballots chain of custody passed the Senate Election Committee.

The proposal would require counties to publicly release digital images of cast ballots. Concerns include ballot secrecy.

Among all the kooky elections bills in the Arizona Legislature, surely one of the kookiest is the plan to cancel your voter registration.

A group of election reform bills that Republicans say would make elections more secure and speed up results would actually make voting more difficult and time consuming, and are solutions to nonexistent problems, critics said Monday. 

Fueled by election conspiracy theories and axes to grind against political opponents, Republican legislators gave initial approval to a slate of bills on Wednesday that served as veiled rebukes against the 2022 midterm elections and the officials who oversaw them. 

As the Nov. 8 General Election draws near, you may want a prediction about the outcome. Here’s mine – and it’s a pretty safe bet.