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Secretary of State Katie Hobbs will temporarily shut down Arizona’s online signature-gathering portal for candidates next month, despite a judge’s refusal to preemptively block Attorney General Mark Brnovich from taking legal action against her for it.
Secretary of State Katie Hobbs will be breaking the law if she shuts down the system that allows congressional and legislative candidates to collect signatures online so they can qualify for the ballot, the Attorney General’s Office warned Tuesday.
Arizona redistricting commissioners spent several hours airing accusations and grievances over the recently concluded mapmaking process but unexpectedly adjourned without certifying the final congressional and legislative districts.
Problems in the system for candidates to qualify for the ballot with online signatures may leave some of them out of the 2022 race. And the people most at risk of failing to qualify could be those who don’t have the big donations from special interests to find away around it, with Democrats potentially more ...
Arizona candidates won’t be able to use the online system to collect the signatures they need to get their names on the ballot if they file to run using their new district numbers at all this year.