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The Latest Breaking News from Maricopa County

Trump stokes Arizona election conspiracy

Right-wing media amplified false claims of voter fraud after Maricopa County tabulation machines malfunction

Salon

Arizona's Maricopa County says it's identified a solution for voting equipment issues

The issues with the tabulators were quickly used by right-leaning influencers to fuel claims of fraud.

WEKU

Voting machine malfunctions reported in 23 polling centres in Maricopa County, Arizona

Voters can still cast ballots at centres with defective counters, though they will be counted later in the evening

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Arizona election workers face wave of threats before midterms: ‘You will all be executed’

Officials in Maricopa County, at the centre of GOP-led election challenges, participated in drills to prepare for possible Election Day violence, according to report

The Independent UK

Trump favourite Kari Lake is one of hundreds of midterms candidates who claim the 2020 election was stolen. She could win in Arizona

Arizona — where an election-denying former TV anchor is taking on the current secretary of state — is among a handful of states that could shift the balance of the Senate towards the Republicans, and set the stage for a Trump 2024 run.

ABC News

Republican politicians in Florida and Missouri refuse to let federal officials monitor voting locations

The Justice Department is sending monitors to 24 states in an effort to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws in the midterm elections

The Independent UK

Arizona election workers face wave of threats before midterms: ‘You will all be executed’

Officials in Maricopa County, at the centre of GOP-led election challenges, participated in drills to prepare for possible Election Day violence, according to report

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Guns at voting sites have long sparked fears of intimidation and violence – yet few states ban their presence

A couple in Mesa, Arizona, was dropping off their ballots on Oct. 21, 2022, for the forthcoming midterm election when they saw two people carrying guns and dressed in tactical gear hanging around the Maricopa County drop box. The armed pair left when officers later arrived.

The Conversation

All candidates for Maricopa County Constable Kyrene precinct in Arizona complete Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

Both of the candidates running in the November 8, 2022, general election for Maricopa County Constable Kyrene precinct in Arizona — Bridget Bellavigna (D) and Daniel Diaz (R) — completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run…

Ballotpedia

Group can monitor Arizona ballot drop boxes, a U.S. judge has ruled

Law enforcement has been alarmed by reports of people, including some who were masked and armed, watching 24-hour ballot boxes in Maricopa County and rural Yavapai County as midterm elections near.

WEKU

Monitors at Arizona ballot drop boxes draw complaints of voter intimidation

Arizona's secretary of state has referred at least six potential voter intimidation complaints near ballot drop boxes to law enforcement.

WEKU

Arizona sheriff steps up security around ballot drop boxes

The sheriff in metropolitan Phoenix says he’s stepped up security around ballot drop boxes after a series of incidents involving people keeping watch on the boxes and taking video of voters after they were apparently inspired by lies about the 2020 election

The Independent UK

Election officials say armed "vigilantes" watching over ballot drop box in Mesa, Arizona

Two voters have filed complaints of voter intimidation to the Arizona state secretary in the past few days.

Axios

Debunked: Trump’s false claims in letter to January 6 panel

We fact-check each misleading assertion made by the former president in a lengthy letter to the Capitol attack committee

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Arizona GOP candidates appeal ruling against hand counts

The Republican candidates for Arizona governor and secretary of state are appealing a federal judge’s ruling dismissing their lawsuit seeking to require ballots in November’s election to be counted by hand

Salon

Phoenix to see biggest Post-Roe showdown

A special election for Maricopa County Attorney makes it the largest prosecutor’s office on the ballot in 2022

The Independent UK

FACT FOCUS: Why final election results take days, not hours

As election workers spend long hours tallying ballots in Arizona and elsewhere in the days after Tuesday’s primary elections, some critics are arguing they should be finished counting by now

The Independent UK

Arizona official issues cease-and-desist notice to Republican candidate: Stop telling people to steal our pens

Bogus ‘SharpieGate’ claims return among GOP candidates in conspiracy theory hotbed state

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WEKU

Maricopa County leaders keep pushing back against election denialism in Arizona

Despite a discredited election review and false claims about the 2020 election, this year's primary, coming up on Tuesday, isn't all that different in Arizona's biggest county.

The Guardian - US

As many as 500 homeless people died in Phoenix area in first half of 2022

Almost 10% of deaths were homicides while number of unsheltered people in Maricopa county has at least tripled since 2016

The Independent UK

Arizona county had largest white, Black, Hispanic growth

Metro Phoenix’s Maricopa County had among the biggest growth in white, Black and Hispanic residents last year, as well as the biggest increase overall of any U.S. county

Reason

"'Ass-Hat' Is a Word That Has No Meaning. It Is Just an Epithet"

From McCarthy v. Harris, 2021 WL 8533067, decided by Maricopa County (Arizona) Superior Court Judge Randall Warner on July 21, but just posted to Westlaw a couple of weeks ago: As alleged in the Complaint, Plaintiff Daniel McCarthy is a "Republican political hopeful." Defendant James T. Harris is a talk…

The Independent UK

Arizona AG letter offers no proof of 2020 election fraud

Arizona’s Republican attorney general has issued an interim report on his review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County

The Independent UK

Arizona election equipment wasn’t tainted, another GOP-backed review finds

‘No evidence’ that voting machines were connected to the internet

Benzinga

BrightView Acquires NatureScape For Undisclosed Sum

BrightView Holdings Inc (NYSE:BV) has acquired NatureScape LLC, a landscape maintenance and development company headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Deal terms were not disclosed This acquisition expands BrightView's reach in Maricopa County. NatureScape is the premiere, full-service commercial landscape company serving clients across the Valley of the Sun and has 110 team members. NatureScape…

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