Just in case you wanted to spend your Friday night looking at redistricting maps (and let's be honest, some of you do) the @ArizonaIRC has new congressional and legislative maps ready to go. LD map 14.0 and CD maps 11.0, 11.1 and 11.2 are here. redistricting-irc-az.hub.arcgis.com/pages/final-dr…
LD map 14.0 takes the LD map approved today, adds 5 Latino Coalition districts, shifts some lines around in the West Valley, and moves a few thousand people from LD14 to LD13. irc-az.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/vi…
CD map 11.0. The primary change from the previous map is that it took the blocks of Glendale east of Luke AFB out of CD7 and CD3 and moved them into CD9. irc-az.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/vi…
CD map 11.1 takes the 11.0 map and incorporates Mehl's proposed changes in the border between CD6 (yellow) and CD7 (brown), which brings CD6 from R+0.8% to R+4.9%. The boundary between Broadway and the river now goes out to Craycroft. irc-az.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/vi…
CD map 11.2 takes the 11.0 and adds Lerner's proposal to move Casa Grande from CD6 to CD2, and move Gold Canyon from CD2 to CD5. CD6 goes from R+0.8% to R+0.2%. CD2 shaves a mere 0.2% off the GOP advantage, which is still at R+6.6%. irc-az.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/vi…
The biggest differences between LD maps 13.1 and 14.0 are in the VRA districts. Map 14.0 uses the Latino Coalition's proposals for LDs 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7 in Maricopa County. Here's a side-by-side comparison.
One more noteworthy change between LD maps 13.1 and 14.0 is the addition of an earlier Latino Coalition plan for LD21, which snakes along the border to take Bisbee and gives up eastern Santa Cruz County to LD19. The original plan had the arm going all the way to Douglas.
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Defendants are being arraigned at Maricopa County Superior Court in the fake electors case. Kelli Ward, Michael Ward, Nancy Cottle, Samuel Moorhead, Greg Safsten and Anthony Kern have all pleaded not guilty so far.
When the judge asked Kern to state his name, he added his legislative title and identified himself as Senator Anthony Kern
Safsten told the judge he couldn’t afford counsel, and a public defender was appointed to represent him
Here we go. @MatthewGress stands to make a motion to force a vote on the abortion ban repeal bill. @electjacqparker says he's in violation of House rules and shouldn't be permitted to make his motion.
.@TravisGrantham shoots it down, says Gress hasn't been found in violation of any rules
@TravisGrantham Gress motions again, Parker again tries to block it, says he's in violation of Rule 31, which requires the speaker's support to amend or suspend House rules.
House Speaker @RepBenToma spoke with @JamesTHarris today to talk about yesterday's push in the Legislature to repeal Arizona's pre-Roe abortion ban in the wake of the state Supreme Court ruling that reinstated it. iheart.com/podcast/1248-t…
Toma said he's consider a legislative ballot referral that would compete with the @azforaccess abortion initiative.
@azforaccess Toma is considering "if there is a way to update the 1864 law in a way that can get signed" but doesn't see a way to make that happen with Hobbs as governor. But they can go around her with a ballot referral.
A grand jury indicted two state tax commissioners based on Bolles' reporting about them taking kickbacks in exchange for state printing contracts. The charges were dismissed, but one was defeated in his re-election while the other chose not to run again.
Bolles' reported that Corporation Commission employees were being coerced into donated part of each paycheck into a fund used for their bosses' reelections, and that one commissioner was a partner in a company that got a sweet contract from the commission.
Maricopa County's official rebuttal of the Cyber Ninjas "audit" of the 2020 election will begin in a few minutes, at 1:30pm. You can tune in on the county's YouTube channel.
In short, the county says basically every claim the audit team made is either false or misleading. The county found 38 instances where a voter might have cast multiple ballots, which they forwarded to the AG's Office, and 50 ballots that might have been double counted.
Candidates who filed to run for the legislature or Congress with their new district numbers can't collect signatures online yet, a problem that may persist for more than two months in some counties azmirror.com/2022/01/05/sec…
.@SecretaryHobbs's office says there's no way to update the system with the new districts until counties update their voter registration systems and send the info to the secretary of state. In counties that have March elections, like Maricopa, that won't happen for a while.
The counties can't actually begin that work until the @ArizonaIRC transmits the new districts to the Secretary of State's Office, which is expected to happen on Jan. 18.