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Surprise ready to reconfigure its 6 council districts

1/10/2023
Anybody who has ever looked at a political map and thought he or she could draw better district boundaries than government officials will now have their chance.

Board hashes out county district lines

6/21/2022
PHOENIX — Scott Jarrett is the director of election day and emergency voting for the Maricopa County Elections Department, the man responsible for helping officials decide where everyone votes …

Arizona Dems want AG to look into legislative map

4/11/2022
PHOENIX — The state Democratic Party wants Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich to investigate decisions by the Independent Redistricting Commission that give a political edge to three …

Candidate signature portal to be shut down ahead of …

1/13/2022
PHOENIX — Problems in the system for candidates to qualify for the ballot with online signatures may leave some of them out of the 2022 race. And the people most at risk of failing to …

Dems would lose major ground with approved …

12/28/2021
PHOENIX — Some new analysis of the just-adopted congressional districts underlines how much Democrats stand to lose if the lines remain as they are now. Political analyst George Khalaf says …

IRC chair defends vote against map

12/16/2021
PHOENIX — Republicans would have an edge in maintaining control of the Arizona Legislature through 2030 under a starting plan for new district lines approved Thursday by the Independent …

Redistricting Commission releases newest map, will …

10/26/2021
PHOENIX — The Independent Redistricting Commission is circling in on what could decide the political future of Arizona for the rest of the decade. But after weeks of meetings and public …

El Mirage aims to boost Census response rate

7/30/2020
El Mirage’s 2020 Census Complete Count Committee will take an urgent message to the streets of El Mirage Aug. 5-10: complete the U.S. Census now before workers begin knocking on doors Aug. 11.

Census workers readying to knock on doors

7/8/2020
Less than 60% of Arizona households have self-responded to the 2020 U.S. Census as officials prepare to knock on the doors of residences that have yet to complete the decennial questionnaire.

In time of COVID-19, Census 2020 moves forward

3/29/2020
The Census count had kicked into gear a couple weeks ago  — citizens began receiving invitation letters in the mail that included instructions on how to respond to the census. Local …

Additional congressional seat possible for Arizona …

12/31/2019
PHOENIX — It looks like Arizona will be gaining some national political clout at the expense of California. Or maybe Illinois. Or Michigan.