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The monumental task of hosting an election in the middle of the pandemic was aided in part by private funding. Now some Republican representatives in the Arizona House want to prohibit state and local election officials from accepting those dollars in future elections. House Bill 2569 would make it illegal to spend private funds to prepare for or conduct an election, or even register voters. Rep. Jake Hoffman (R-Queen Creek) said he sponsored the bill because elections should be funded solely by the government.  “This bill is about impartiality in our election process, plain and simple,”...

Bill would require people, groups registering voters to register with elections officials Republicans called it an “integrity bill,” one would increase transparency and stop “voter registration fraud” and incompetent people who don’t fill out voter registration forms correctly, while Democrats called it a solution in search of a problem, one grounded on a conspiracy that will result in less people being engaged in registering people to vote. The proposal, House Bill 2373 — introduced by Rep. Tim Dunn, R-Yuma — would require every person and group that registers people to vote to...