voter suppression
Posted May 11, 2022, 11:13 am
Kira Lerner
/Arizona Mirror
Across the country, election officials this legislative season made their voices heard through appeals to lawmakers, urging them not to enact voting laws that they saw as unfeasible or unnecessary, or that would ultimately make their jobs more difficult. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 13, 2022, 7:18 am
Shondiin Silversmith
/Arizona Mirror
Language barriers, cultural disrespect, outright hostility, extreme physical distances to polling places, lack of accessibility and persistent poverty are just some of the obstacles Native Americans face when it comes to exercising their right to vote.... Read more»
Posted Mar 23, 2022, 6:07 am
Gloria Gomez
/Don Bolles Fellow, University of Arizona
Every Arizona voter who casts a ballot would have their name and address published online by election officials under a proposal being backed by Republican legislators. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 22, 2022, 1:47 am
Kaila Mellos
/Cronkite News
Arizona Republicans who still reject the outcome of the 2020 presidential race introduced a spate of election reform bills this legislative session that would restrict voting access – including some that opponents argue could disenfranchise voters with disabilities. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 21, 2022, 6:51 am
Nancy Martorano Miller
/University of Dayton/The Conversation
There’s been a good deal of crying foul about what are being called anti-democratic new state laws that make it harder to vote - but But it turns out such laws might have little impact on voter turnout and vote margins in an election. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 16, 2022, 10:22 am
Melissa Hellmann
/The Center for Public Integrity
Native American tribes and organizations throughout the nation are working to ensure that Indigenous voices are heard as states go about drawing political maps that determine who will wield power for the next decade. ... Read more»
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Posted Mar 10, 2022, 4:52 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
A perfect storm of pandemic-induced delays in the census, unintended consequences from multiple years’ worth of legislation and an unconventional legal interpretation by the secretary of state created a problem that triggered a change to the law that has enraged the GOP’s activist base. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 8, 2022, 10:43 am
Gloria Gomez
/Don Bolles Fellow, University of Arizona
Arizona Senate Republicans on Monday advanced bills on voter registration that critics say will discourage some younger people — particularly college students — from registering to vote. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 2, 2022, 6:43 am
Gloria Gomez
/Don Bolles Fellow, University of Arizona
The grass lawns in front of the Arizona Capitol were filled with brightly painted circus-style games - all of them satirical references to recent legislation restricting voting rights - and event organized by Progress Arizona to highlight "ridiculous bills that are based on lies."... Read more»
Posted Mar 1, 2022, 9:02 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona voters will decide in November whether they should have to put more than a signature on early ballots - if approved, the law would require something extra: a driver’s license number, state identification number, the last four digits of a Social Security number or a voter ID number.... Read more»
Posted Feb 18, 2022, 10:51 am
Gloria Gomez
/Don Bolles Fellow, University of Arizona
Voting would return to 19th Century methods — with their glacial pace and flawed accuracy -– and reduce voter access under legislation Republicans approved in a legislative committee that would ban machines from counting votes, critics said. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 18, 2022, 10:32 am
Michael McDaniel
/Courthouse News Service
An Arizona Senate committee voted Thursday to advance an election reform bill that would create a permanent election audit team under the under the auditor general's office, which currently does not field an elections audit team.... Read more»
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Posted Feb 14, 2022, 8:29 am
Gloria Gomez
/Don Bolles Fellow, University of Arizona
In a meeting riddled with false accusations of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election, Republican senators approved bills in the Senate Government Committee to increase the monitoring of voter registration rolls and purge more voters from the voting rolls. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 11, 2022, 8:32 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Bills based on unfounded and debunked claims of fraud that have become orthodoxy among Republicans passed the first hurdle to becoming law Thursday after a committee hearing full of misinformation about the 2020 Arizona election. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 7, 2022, 6:00 am
Jeremiah Sosa
/Cronkite News
Faith leaders from around the country are calling for the NFL to move the 2023 Super Bowl out of Arizona, citing several bills they characterize as voter suppression. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 3, 2022, 1:04 pm
Camila Pedrosa
/Cronkite News
While bipartisan panel of election officials preferred to look forward to the 2022 general elections, other voting rights advocates said officials cannot afford to ignore the ongoing threat posed by election deniers.... Read more»