The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a hearing in connection to GOP candidate Kari Lake’s signature verification issue, while fining her lawyers $2,000 for their claims that were made about ballots. “It is further ordered that the trial court shall forthwith conduct such proceedings as appropriate to resolve the unrelated question previously remanded,” wrote…

Rampant problems with printers and tabulators, wait times numbering in the hours, and voters giving up in desperation. That’s the conclusion of a new report on voting centers in Maricopa County, Arizona. Several house races are still uncalled two weeks after the election. Ballots are still being counted in California, and Alaska’s voting system is…

President Biden met with Chinese Communist party leader Xi Jinping today in Indonesia. This was their first in-person meeting since Biden became president. About 200 protesters turned out at the Maricopa County tabulation center on Saturday. Republican state Senator Wendy Rogers tweeted for patriots to “rise up to rally.” Residents voiced their concerns about what…

Hundreds of thousands of votes still remained uncounted in Maricopa County yesterday. Election officials in Arizona’s most populous county say it could take until at least Friday to tally all votes. In several of the most crucial races on election night — mail-in ballots played an important factor and catapulted Democratic candidates to victories. One example…

Hundreds of thousands of votes still remained uncounted in Maricopa County yesterday. Election officials in Arizona’s most populous county say it could take until at least Friday to tally all votes. In several of the most crucial races on election night — mail-in ballots played an important factor and catapulted Democratic candidates to victories. One example…

The Board of Supervisors of Arizona’s most populous county and the state Republican-led Senate have reached an agreement that resolves an impasse over the release of county election routers. In a special session Friday, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved an agreement with the Senate that “keeps county routers and other sensitive materials out…

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann on Tuesday said that the 2020 presidential election audit’s ballot count led by Cyber Ninjas differed from the Maricopa County tally, and that the discrepancy prompted the election review team to acquire new machines to recount the ballots. “They haven’t released a number yet,” Fann, a Republican, said during in…

Two Arizona Republican state senators traded accusations on June 30 over the partisan defeat of an election integrity bill that sought tighter security restrictions in future elections. Kelly Townsend (R) criticized Michelle Ugenti-Rita (R), the chairwoman of the Arizona Senate Government Committee, after she voted with Democrats to kill the bill that Townsend had sponsored,…

An attorney representing Maricopa County sent Republican state Senate President Karen Fann a letter ordering the preservation of all documents relating to the audit of the county. Maricopa County attorney Allister Adel sent the notice (pdf) to Fann claiming that some of the auditors involved in the process made potentially false or defamatory allegations. “It is…