voting rights
Posted May 15, 2022, 2:28 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has avoided public scrutiny like last year's fashions. One of her staffers will be at the Pima County supervisor's meeting Tuesday. This may be a rare chance for voters to vent to her.... Read more»
Posted May 6, 2022, 6:54 am
Jessica Huseman
/VoteBeat
Less than 25% of the American public said they trusted the government as of last year, but election officials can work with the media to get ahead of misinformation, and to make themselves a source the public trusts. ... 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 Apr 12, 2022, 6:09 am
Matt Vasilogambros
/Stateline
Around the country, new voting restrictions have complicated an already difficult process for 38 million disabled voters—a challenge as advocates navigate sudden shifts and measures undergo last-minute legislative changes during the primary season.... Read more»
Posted Mar 31, 2022, 12:04 pm
Endia Fontanez
/Cronkite News
El gobernador de Arizona, Doug Ducey, firmó varios proyectos de ley el miércoles que restringen el aborto, el voto y los jóvenes transgénero, haciéndose eco de la agenda legislativa conservadora que está arrasando en muchos estados.... Read more»
Posted Feb 4, 2022, 2:28 pm
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Nail-biter elections that last two weeks after the polls close could be a thing of the past under a proposed measure that could be on the November ballot — with the trade-off that Arizonans will have fewer options for casting their votes.... Read more»
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Posted Feb 4, 2022, 12:38 pm
Emily Sacia
/Cronkite News
Arizona Democratic Party Chair Raquel Terán concedes that Democrats don’t have the numbers on their own to rebuff Republican election reform bills so she turned Thursday to an unlikely source for help: Republicans.... 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»
Posted Jan 31, 2022, 4:51 pm
Jennifer Shutt, Ariana Figueroa & Jacob Fischler/Arizona Mirror
Governors of both parties from throughout the United States met here over the weekend to try to speak on a unified front about what their states need from the federal government - but the waters were muddied by governors’ clearly divided political views about two major issues.... Read more»
Posted Jan 26, 2022, 4:56 pm
Arlyssa Becenti
/Arizona Mirror
Sen. Sinema's recent vote to maintain the Senate filibuster, blocked other Democrats from passing the Freedom to Vote Act and The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.... Read more»
Posted Jan 23, 2022, 5:39 pm
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona Democrats formally censured Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Saturday for her vote to preserve the filibuster and refusal to join her Democratic colleagues in carving out an exception to the 60-vote threshold to allow a voting rights bill to pass.... Read more»
Posted Jan 22, 2022, 12:43 pm
Clay Jones
/Claytoonz
Did Mitch McConnell really state that Black voters aren’t Americans? Yes, yes he did. It’s no mystery why McConnell would say something like this. There’s a simple and obvious answer. His statement was not a gaffe. It was a Freudian slip.... Read more»
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Posted Jan 19, 2022, 8:51 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
The senior senator from Arizona, Kyrsten Sinema, made sure she was the center of attention as she and Sen. Joe Manchin (Tory — Victorian England) stomped on the chance of Democrats passing voting rights laws by crossing the aisle to stand with the Republicans.... Read more»
Posted Jan 5, 2022, 11:35 am
Ariana Figueroa
/Arizona Mirror
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday stressed that Democrats are prepared to change Senate rules to pass voting rights legislation — and linked the move to the attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 17, 2021, 4:53 am
Jacob Fischler
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona’s U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema remains opposed to weakening the Senate’s 60-vote threshold for moving ahead on legislation, even as other Democrats are floating the idea of making an exception to the chamber’s rules to pass major voting rights measures. ... Read more»
Posted Nov 18, 2021, 11:29 am
Miriam OrdoƱez
/Cronkite News
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»