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Volunteers with Northeast Arizona Native Democrats talk with potential Native voters in Window Rock, Arizona, about the congressional and legislative map redistricting.

The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission’s draft maps for both the state’s 30 legislative districts and nine congressional districts — which will be used for the next decade — weaken the influence that Native American voters will have on who gets elected. Read more»

Jordi Santos, 18, smiles after receiving his high school diploma during North High School’s commencement ceremony on May 22, 2019. Santos is among the 2,000 students without immigration status that graduate from high school every year in Arizona.

Republican Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita says voters shouldn’t get to weigh in on a ballot measure next year that would repeal a state law prohibiting undocumented students from accessing in-state tuition because not enough Republicans supported the proposal. Read more»

Los encuestadores van a los campus de ASU y verifican que las personas estén registradas para votar y brindan información adicional.

Con los cambios en las leyes de votación, las oficinas del Secretario de Estado de Arizona y el Registrador del Condado están enseñando a los votantes a registrarse y permanecer registrados para las elecciones de 2022. Read more»

Pollsters go to ASU campuses and verify that people are registered to vote and provide additional information.

Arizona election officials and other organizations that help register voters say that voters in the state should be aware of changes in voting laws if they want to stay registered to vote in 2022. Read more»

A recent poll shows a strong majority of Arizona voters — but only a small fraction of Republicans — support face mask mandates and vaccine requirements in schools and government buildings to combat the spread of COVID-19. Read more»

Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan (left) testifies to the Senate on July 15, 2021.

Supporters of Arizona's 'audit' have repeated Doug Logan's statement that 74,243 mail-in ballots were counted that had “no clear record of them being sent” - yet he had records for months showing that almost every one of those voters legally cast a legitimate ballot at an in-person early voting center. Read more»

President Joseph R. Biden, Vice President Kamala D. Harris, and their spouses greet the crowd at the top of the stairs on the east side of the Capitol Building during the 59th inauguration in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2021.

Arizonans don’t want to re-elect President Joe Biden to another term in 2024, but will again give the state’s 11 electoral votes to him if he’s running against Donald Trump, and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has better job approval ratings from Republican voters than from her fellow Democrats. Read more»

A volunteer observer (right, dressed in orange) watches as Maricopa County ballots from the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors hired by the Arizona senate at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Ariz. on April 27, 2021.

A poll of Arizona voters finds that more than half don’t trust the Arizona Senate’s 'audit' of Maricopa County’s election, and almost half of voters say they’re less likely to vote for a senator who backed the 'audit'. Read more»

A sea of Trump 2020 and American flags flooded the Arizona state Capitol for the 'Stop the Steal' rally Saturday afternoon.

Amid celebrations on one side, and vows to keep fighting on the other, Arizonans on Sunday awaited final vote counts even as President-elect Joe Biden claimed a “clear victory, a convincing victory” and began making plans for the next four years. Read more»

Arizona State University students on the Tempe campus wait to vote in the 2018 midterms. Garrett Archer, a data analyst, calls the better-than-usual turnout of young voters in 2018  surprising.

Activists who believe young voters in Arizona have the power to swing the state are working to mobilize this often inconsistent and underrepresented group by engaging with them across all platforms – including Bumble and Tinder. Read more»

Early voting shows a surge in ballots cast by young voters, who have more than tripled their rate of participation from the last midterm election, in 2014. Despite the surge, turnout by young voters remains among the lowest of all age groups.

Young Arizonans are casting ballots at more than three times the rate they did in 2014, according to an analysis of early voting, the possible result of such high-profile voter registration efforts as March for Our Lives. Read more»

The number of independents in Arizona has increased by 43,085 since this time last year. But how "independent" are non-party voters? Read more»

The first voter registration report of 2015 showed that the number of independents in Arizona has increased by 43,085 since this time last year. Read more»

Surprise, surprise, Mitt Romney pays around 15 percent of his "income" in taxes. That's because his income isn't "income," it's capital gains — taxes on which we'd all like to have to pay. Read more»

Latino voters had a lot to be steamed about in this midterm election. Immigrant bashing reached a new low this campaign season and Latino voters reacted, causing significant reverberations. Read more» 1

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