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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 Ducey's 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 State's Office says. Recall backers turned in what they estimated as 24,500 signatures, which on its face would be more than enough to trigger a recall election for Bowers, R-Mesa. But a technical flaw sank the effort: None of the ...

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 that is overseeing the audit, states that the audit team worked with unnamed individuals to "stati...

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 allow the company or the Republican-led Senate to keep the material secret and ordered it made publ...

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 sent to Gov. Doug Ducey following a party-line vote in the Senate, where Democrats warned the measur...