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Hundreds of thousands of Arizonans could be removed from the mail voting list in 2027
Arizona voters who haven’t used their mail ballots in recent general elections could get kicked off the Active Early Voting List stating in 2027.
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Arizona county set to use new ballot paper born of longstanding election mistrust
Mohave County will debut new ballot paper with added security measures in July primary. Leaders in the county are betting the new paper will perform well, despite mixed test results—and that other counties will follow their lead.
Border911: The misinformation network profiting off the false invasion narrative
Border 911: A network of dark money and charity organizations led by former intelligence officers and ex-feds has been spreading propaganda, laying the groundwork for presidential election challenges–and profiting from border disinformation.
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Arizona rejects thousands of mail ballots for mismatched voter signatures each election, but a review of Maricopa County’s 2022 midterm ballots reveals that flaws in the county’s signature verification process may disproportionately affect voters who are younger, newly registered or those who do not belong to a political party.
Experts warn of extremist push to expand sheriffs’ role in elections
Election and domestic extremism experts warn that so-called “constitutional sheriff” groups are compounding problems created by disinformation campaigns and undermining public confidence in elections and law enforcement, setting the stage for situations that can lead to voter intimidation and ultimately subvert free and fair elections.
Arizona ‘ground zero’ for extremist, anti-government sheriff movement
More than half of Arizona’s county sheriffs are at least partially aligned with a growing movement of so-called “constitutional sheriffs,” with an ideology that threatens to radicalize law enforcement by indoctrinating them with false legal theories about a sheriff’s authority over state and federal government, and a duty to nullify laws they interpret as unconstitutional.…
How AZCIR identified Arizona’s ‘constitutional sheriffs’
Whether or not sheriffs adopt the core ideologies of the movement is more telling when it comes to how they approach their jobs—including how they interact with constituents and other government agencies—than whether they use the “constitutional sheriff” moniker.
State, county policies impact rejected ballot rates in November election
Election officials didn’t count 27,327 ballots cast by Arizona voters in the November election, rejecting more than twice the 10,457 votes that flipped the state for President-elect Joe Biden in what was the closest raw vote margin of any state in the nation. The uncounted votes, which are legally rejected by officials for reasons such…
History of rejected Arizona ballots creates further election uncertainty
Less than a month away from the November election, Arizona’s voter registration deadline has changed twice in two weeks, putting into question whether the latest update will reach voters in time, and leaving the possibility that large numbers of ballots could be rejected. Nearly 14,000 ballots in Arizona’s 2016 presidential election were rejected by county…
Arizona rejected ballots: How AZCIR crunched the numbers
AZCIR used federal and state data to identify trends in the state’s rejected ballot rates from past general elections to better understand how the information can inform voters leading into the 2020 presidential election.
Candidate claims support of dead voters in attempt to get public campaign funding
In early March, Democratic legislative candidate Larry Herrera filed 255 signatures to qualify for public campaign funding. Among them was a form signed on Feb. 3, 2018, by Bernadine Barbara Misiak. Except Misiak died in November 2016.
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