Voting/Ballot Security Archives

Montenegro Frames Pima Election Suit As Test Of Fontes’ Authority

May 21, 2026 2:40 pmJune 5, 2026 4:52 pm

Arizona House Speaker Steve Montenegro (R-29) is again drawing a hard line against Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D), as a new federal lawsuit challenges whether Fontes’ election manual gives local officials too much power to police speech around polling...

Heap Wins Another Maricopa BOS Election Control Challenge

May 18, 2026 11:49 amJune 5, 2026 4:52 pm

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors suffered another setback in its ongoing court fight with Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap after a Superior Court judge denied the board’s request to pause an April ruling that restored several election-related powers to...

Kolodin Slams Fontes over DOJ Voter File Refusal

January 8, 2026 9:36 amJanuary 16, 2026 2:41 pm

Arizona State Representative and Secretary of State candidate Alexander (Alex) Kolodin is taking exception to current Secretary of State Adrian Fontes’ refusal to turn over Arizona’s unredacted voter registration database to the U.S. Department of Justice. Fontes’ denial is escalating...

Maricopa BOS’s Stewart Applaud’s Heap’s New Voter Signature Process

November 26, 2025 6:57 amDecember 8, 2025 1:36 pm

Maricopa County officials are offering sharply different assessments of Recorder Justin Heap’s new signature-verification process, which was used for the November 4, 2025, jurisdictional election. During last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Mark Stewart publicly praised Heap and the elections...

Kolodin Files Sweeping 2026 Election-Integrity Measure

November 20, 2025 2:34 pmNovember 26, 2025 12:41 pm

This week, Republican State Representative Alexander Kolodin (R-2) introduced one of the most consequential election-integrity proposals of the upcoming session, filing HCR2001 – the Arizona Secure Elections Act – a ballot referral that would substantially reshape Arizona’s voting laws if...

Maricopa Recorder, BOS Clash Intensifies Amid New Ballot Find

November 7, 2025 4:16 pmNovember 18, 2025 2:31 pm

A discovery of 2,288 unattended ballot envelopes left at a ballot-replacement site in Maricopa County has sparked fresh political tension between the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, intensifying an ongoing legal dispute over election...

Kolodin, Hoffman Call Out Polling Place Chaos

November 5, 2025 11:39 amNovember 17, 2025 12:57 pm

Election integrity in Tucson dominated the Tuesday, November 5, 2026, episode of The Afternoon Addiction with Garret Lewis. He addressed claims of limited transparency and confusion surrounding Republican poll watchers and election observers in Pima County. Lewis opened the show...