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Voters who want to sign online petitions and the candidates who need those signatures to get their names on the ballot this November are being thwarted by a glitch in the secretary of state’s system caused by the decennial redistricting process. 

The fledgling Patriot Party skipped an appointment with the Secretary of State’s Office to submit signatures so it can be recognized as an official party, meaning its candidates won’t be on the ballot in the 2022 election cycle, the first since its formation.

Fann demands records on audit from Hobbs From left are Katie Hobbs and Karen Fann In a sign the Senate audit, which was supposed to be only about the 2020 election results, is now expanding in scope, Senate President Karen Fann now wants documents from Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. In a public records request, the Prescott Republican is demanding any communications Hobbs has had with anyone about the audit and the litigation it has produced. And Fann is casting a wide net, seeking not just me...

“We find that there is evidence of continuing misconduct, the underlying offense is incredibly serious, and the uncontroverted misconduct in itself will likely result in substantial permanent sanctions at the conclusion of these disciplinary proceedings,” the court explained in its order. The court, in an opinion that reads like a fact-checking article, singled out several examples of Giuliani’s falsehoods. We have written about some of those, as well as several others. Here we provide a ...

A drive collected enough signatures to trigger a recall of House Speaker Rusty Bowers, but they failed to adhere to other requirements.

Recall effort against Arizona House speaker Rusty Bowers fails Mary Jo Pitzl, Arizona Republic © Michael Chow/The Republic House Speaker Rusty Bowers presides before Gov. Doug Duceys State of the State address at the Arizona State Capitol on January 13, 2020. An attempted recall of House Speaker Rusty Bowers has failed, the Arizona Secretary of States Office says. Recall backers turned in what they estimated as 24,500 signatures, which on its face would be more than enough to...

Hobbs this month requested protection from the Department of Public Safety for the second time since the election.

Senate President Karen Fann has halted plans for a controversial provision of her election audit that called for auditors to knock on voters doors to confirm voter registration information, she informed the U.S. Department of Justice. Fann, R-Prescott, told the Department of Justice in a letter on Friday that the Senate decided several weeks ago that it would "indefinitely defer that component of the audit." Subscribe The statement of work for Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based cybersecurity firm...

Arizona vote recount contractor releases privacy policies By BOB CHRISTIE | April 30, 2021 at 7:41 AM EDT - Updated April 30 at 11:58 AM PHOENIX (AP) — A contractor overseeing the Arizona Senate’s unprecedented recount of 2.1 million ballots from the November election complied Thursday with a court order and released its policies for ensuring voter privacy and ballot secrecy. The release of three documents by Florida-based Cyber Ninjas came a day after a Maricopa County judge refused to...

Arizona Legislature votes to outlaw private election grants Follow Us Question of the Day By JONATHAN J. COOPER - Associated Press - Wednesday, April 7, 2021 PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Republicans voted Wednesday to ban private funding for elections, a response to millions of dollars in grants for the 2020 election from organizations with funding from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s foundation. The measure was ...