On February 9, 2024, Governor Hobbs signed into law HB 2785, a bipartisan emergency measure that made substantial changes to the Arizona election laws and procedures for the 2024 election cycle and beyond. This article...more
The Voting Rights Act (“VRA”), a landmark civil rights law enacted in 1965, has frequently been used as an enforcement mechanism to strike down voting laws and procedures that discriminate against voters on the basis of race....more
There are a lot of moving parts to election administration, and it takes a lot of people to make them work. Not surprisingly, mistakes are made on occasion. The consequences of those mistakes often end up in court. In this...more
For those involved in the citizen initiative process, there are lessons to be learned from the Arizona Supreme Court’s recent decision involving a challenge to the signatures obtained by certain initiative petition...more
In what some deem the “800-pound gorilla” of election law, the U.S. Supreme Court, on June 27, 2023, rejected the so-called independent state legislature theory in Moore v. Harper. By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court held...more
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