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Republican lawmakers are pushing a wave of legislation through statehouses across the nation to make voting more difficult.

ATLANTA (AP) — In Arizona, a Republican state senator worried aloud that his party's...

In Arizona, a Republican state senator worried aloud that his party's proposed voter identification requirements might be too “cumbersome.”

Republicans in the Arizona Senate voted Monday to require voters to include identification paperwork with their mailed ballots, insisting their motives aren't racist as Democrats contended the measure would have an outsized impact on voters of color. The measure is one of the most controversial of dozens of election bills introduced this year in Arizona. It comes as Republican-controlled legislatures around the country add new voting requirements after President Donald Trump lost his re-election bid in November and his supporters tried to cast doubt on the outcome. The measure approved Monday...

State senators won’t pursue any action against first-term lawmaker Wendy Rogers about her interactions with a now-fired staffer. On a party-line vote, the three Republicans on the Senate Ethics Committee concluded that there was no “clear and convincing evidence” that the Flagstaff Republican had violated any rules of conduct in her interactions with Michael Polloni. That is the standard a staff attorney says committee members must use in determining the truth. But the two Democrats on the committee suggested their Republican colleagues were reading the rules in too narrow a fa...