Maricopa County Elections Department

Ken Bennett: Latino Voters May Have Cast Provisional Ballots Thanks to Those Who Registered Them

Despite activists' complaints that Latino voters were more likely to cast provisional ballots in this year's election -- and that elections officials were likely to blame -- Secretary of State Ken Bennett pointed a finger back at the activists.Bennett recently testified before the U.S. Senate Judici ... More >>

Harry Reid Barks at the Moon, Asks Arizona Officials to Count Votes Quickly and Accurately

Attention elections officials across the state: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is asking that you all count the votes "promptly, accurately and equally."We weren't aware that everyone was just lollygagging and kind of just eyeballing the amount of votes for any given candidate, but now that the t ... More >>

Spy on the Maricopa County Elections Department if You Have Nothing Better to Do

If you're bored, and you want to be as bored as you were five seconds ago, we've got the perfect thing for you: watch Maricopa County Elections Department workers tabulate votes -- live.Maybe you'll be the hero of the community for catching some voter fraud live on the air. Maybe you'll catch the gu ... More >>

Maricopa County's Number of Remaining Ballots Unknown; Activists Urge Penzone, Carmona, to Retract Concessions

The Maricopa County Elections Department has given a straight answer about the number of ballots that still haven't been counted as of noon on the day after the election: they don't know.Citizens for a Better Arizona activists went to the elections office today to get a clear number, as media report ... More >>

Is the Maricopa County Elections Department's Spanish Campaign Enough?

After some uproar was caused with the Maricopa County Elections Department printing the wrong election date in Spanish on a few materials, it's now spending money on a Spanish-only campaign to tell voters the correct election day.Two items distributed by the elections office listed Election Day as N ... More >>

Maricopa County Elections Department Starting Spanish Campaign Due to Election-Date Error, Which Supervisor Wilcox Calls a "Tragedy"

The Maricopa County Elections Department released some of the details this morning about the Spanish-language campaign it's putting on, in an effort to set the record straight for any Spanish-speaking voters who may have been confused by errors made by the department.On two occassions, people notice ... More >>

Are the Maricopa County Elections Department's Spanish Errors Getting Suspicious?

For the second time, materials from the Maricopa County Elections Department have been discovered with the wrong election date in Spanish, but the correct one in English.After the second instance was found -- and due to other controversies regarding the county elections office -- Randy Parraz and Ci ... More >>

Maricopa County Elections Office Had More Materials With Wrong Election Date in Spanish, So It Got a Calendar

The Maricopa County Elections Department documents showing the incorrect date for the election -- but just in Spanish -- were not the only things offering the wrong date for Spanish speakers.See also:-Helen Purcell Urged to End Confusion Over CBS 5 Early Ballot Report-Maricopa County Elections Depar ... More >>

Maricopa County Elections Department's Spanish Error: Simple Mistake or Suspicious Mistake?

Quite a few people seem to think it's quite a coincidence that the Maricopa County Elections Department listed the wrong election date on a sparsely distrusted document, but the error was only made on the Spanish portion of that document.The estimate from the elections office is that fewer than 50 p ... More >>

Maricopa County Elections Department Prints Wrong Date in Spanish on a Few Documents; Voter-Suppression Theories Follow

The Maricopa County Elections Department says a small number of people received a document that listed the wrong election date -- put only in the portion of the document printed in Spanish.The estimate from the elections office is that fewer than 50 people received this document -- it's likely fewer ... More >>

Dave Hendershott Will Take the 5th in Joel Fox Job Appeal, Says Lawyer; Read Updates on Fox Hearing

​Dave Hendershott, the disgraced former chief deputy under Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, will invoke his right against self-incrimination if asked to testify in the job appeal hearing for fired deputy Joel Fox.Barry Markson, Hendershott's lawyer, told Judge Robert Sparks in the appeal hearin ... More >>

El Mirage Bond Election Too Close To Call, But Surprise Voters Elect New Mayor

​It's not looking good for El Mirage officials who rallied for voters to approve an $8.5 million bond for a new police station and to partially fund the building of a local YMCA. But with only a 19-vote gap, it's too close to call. Residents cast 984 ballots against the measure, which would have r ... More >>

Phoenix Election Officials Will Unveil The City's Next Mayor Tonight

​ Many Phoenix voters have already cast a ballot. Some, perhaps even twice. For those of you who haven't, today is the day. Don't forget that Phoenix is now using voting centers, which have replaced the traditional polling places. The Maricopa County Elections Department, which is running ... More >>

Russell Pearce Files Lame Court Challenge to Recall Petitions

Squawk all you want, bully-boy, your days in office are numbered...right up till November 8State Senator Russell Pearce's lawyer Lisa Hauser filed one of the lamest legal challenges in this history of civil actions today. This, to the so-far successful recall effort against Pearce, which has resulte ... More >>

Obama Adminstration Wants Illegal Immigrants to Vote, Says Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne

Tom Horne, Arizona's attorney general, is defending a law that requires proof of citizenship to be presented in order to register to vote.​ President Obama's hoping to secure votes from illegal immigrants by fighting an Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship at the polls, says Arizon ... More >>

Republican Party Chairman Tom Morrissey's GOP Headquarters Heating Up -- and it's Not Just the Broken Air Conditioner

Some GOPers aren't happy with newly elected state Republican Party Chairman Tom Morrissey.​The air conditioning at Arizona's Republican Party headquarters is broken, it's been broken, and it may be a while until it's fixed. But it's not just the temperature that's heating up within the state's Gra ... More >>

SCA Scandal: Elections Department and Recorder's Office Find "Reasonable Cause" That Campaign Laws Were Broken

Steve Ellman, one of the SCA contributors​ The Maricopa County Elections Department and Recorder's Office announced this morning it had found "reasonable cause to believe that a number of individuals and entities" have violated the state's campaign finance laws. According to the announce ... More >>

Captain Joel Fox Expected to Deliver SCA Donation Checks Today to County Elections

​ Captain Joel Fox had to 'fess up and spill the names of the cagey SCA donors behind a Republican Party smear campaign, but he still hasn't turned over the contribution checks. Today's the big day, according to Jeffrey Messing, the lawyer hired by the Maricopa County Elections ... More >>

SCA Scandal: Dave Hendershott, Top Sheriff's Officials and Steve Ellman Among Major Contributors; Fox Files Two Campaign Finance Reports

Dave Hendershott The dam has broken on the SCA story: Under threat of a $315,000 fine from the Maricopa County Elections Department, Joel Fox and the SCA have filed two campaign finance reports that show high-ranking deputies under Sheriff Joe Arpaio as major contributors. The biggest buck ... More >>

Captain Joel Fox Explains His Side of Donation Flap in Comments to Valley Fever Posts

For months, Captain Joel Fox of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office stayed quiet about his role in a questionable $105,000 donation to the Republican Party. Now you can't shut the guy up. Not that we'd want to: Everyone loves a good mystery, and Fox still won't tell the names of ... More >>

Greenberg Traurig Law Firm, Which Earns Big Bucks From Maricopa County, Tapped by County to Review Mystery Donation to Republicans

ACORN Screws Up 150 Voter Registrations in Maricopa County, Says Elections Department

Dan Saban, King of the Undervotes

Dan Saban outraises Joe in dough, and why Arpaio still hearts Shaquille O'Neal.

Three Congressmen call for J.T. Ready's ouster, the Nationalist Coalition's PHX "family night," and Oi Fest! in Tonopah.

Load of Crappioppoli

Maverick state Senator Jack Harper and shady Clinton administration bureaucrat Henry Cisneros are back and bitchin', which's ruffling tail feathers

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, Jnauary 26, 2006

Ballot Boxing

GOP honchos keep hiding the truth about election foul-ups, as it's learned that local ballots may be stored illegally

Ballot Box Breakdowns

An independent voting-technology expert finds serious problems in the Maricopa County Elections Department

Pandora's Box

Is Arizona's Speaker of the House afraid of what might happen if the truth is learned about a local election?

J. Edgar Arpaio

Sheriff Joe's fashioning himself after the late FBI director, only (we think) without the women's underwear

Letters

Letters from the issue of Thursday, July 28, 2005

All Bark and No Bite

The county attorney could've forced elections department reform, but he backed down

Dangerous Dance

Ominous storm clouds threaten to trample the Constitution and turn our republic into a theocracy.

Election Eve Nightmare

Can the Maricopa County Elections Department ensure the accuracy of early voting? Hell No!

Letters

From the week of March 22, 2001

Web Feat

Judge grants Arpaio injunction against threats

Posse Galore

Staking out Maricopa County's wildest political race -- to unseat Sheriff Joe Arpaio