An audit of the Arizona Republican Party’s finances from 2022 reveals clues about the state party’s “disastrous” losses in every major statewide race — issues the state party says it corrected in time for the 2024 elections as Republicans won up and down the ballot.
Republicans in the Arizona Legislature have resumed their efforts to make significant changes to the state’s election processes — largely motivated by unfounded claims of fraud — even after Donald Trump won the presidential race and the GOP strengthened its majorities in both chambers of the state Legislature.
After Kari Lake lost her U.S. Senate race in November, some skeptics cried election fraud. They doubted that so many people who voted for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, who carried Arizona,
Since 1890, The Arizona Republic has written the news of Arizona, from its rough and dusty territorial days to its current status as a national hub of semiconductor manufacturing and national political bellwether.
After an election that went in their party’s favor, Arizona’s GOP representatives focused on Trump’s win, unlike four years ago.
That explains why Arizona law requires rotation of names on primary election ballots, said Democrats' attorney Sarah Gonski. She urged U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa to extend that rotation to general elections. The judge declined, and the DNC had no better luck going all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A former Arizona election official says he has PTSD from 2020 threats. Despite a peaceful transfer of power this year, Bill Gates still has concerns going forward.
An appeals court rejected an Arizona official’s argument that felony charges against him for delaying certification of his rural county’s 2022 election results should be dismissed because he has legislative immunity.
There have been many calls about fixing Arizona elections infrastructure after the lengthy count time following the Nov. 5, 2024 election.
Katie Hobbs, Kris Mayes and Adrian Fontes have turned to States United amid an environment of intense distrust, lies and conspiracies around elections
Arizona’s Senate Republicans say they’re unified behind an ambitious plan for the 2025 legislative session that begins next week, aiming to pass laws on border security, water rights, quicker election results and battling “wokeness” in public schools.
Lawmakers on the state and county levels are looking for ways to speed things up and improve security in future elections.