Lawmakers who would not wear face coverings were also sworn in separately from the others. Fann and Bowers were re-elected to leadership positions Monday. Election law is also likely to be a topic of discussion for lawmakers this session. Maricopa County was at the center of election fraud allegations. Eight lawsuits were tossed out by judges and the Arizona Supreme Court. To date, no evidence of widespread election fraud has been found in the state.
Senate President Karen Fann has said she intends to continue to seek election records from the county. But we won't know until we do an audit. The Legislature's top task each year is passing a state budget. Lindsay Walker , Patch Staff. Find out what's happening in Phoenix with free, real-time updates from Patch. Let's go! Doug Ducey puts his face covering back on after signing election documents to certify the election results for federal, statewide, and legislative offices and statewide ballot measures at the official canvass at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix.
Arizona Republicans voted Saturday, Jan. Party activists also reelected controversial Chairwoman Kelli Ward, who has been one of Trump's most unflinching supporters and among the most prolific promoters of his baseless allegations of election fraud. Franklin, Pool, File. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. That leaves the issue of competitiveness up to the discretion of the AIRC.
How much emphasis Neuberg or the other four commissioners place on competitiveness remain to be seen. The commission is closer to the beginning of its work on its draft maps — the first drafts that will later be revised after 30 days of public review — than it is to the end. The AIRC drew three congressional districts it deemed competitive — one that has changed parties multiple times; one that elected exclusively Democrats, but also often favored Republican presidential candidates; and one that proved to be solidly Democratic.
Eight of the last commission's legislative districts have elected members of both major parties at some point in the past decade, a trend that has favored Democrats more than the GOP, but has led to occasional Republican pickups in blue districts. Though Democrats were unable to achieve their elusive dream of taking the legislature, they've reduced the GOP to a one-vote majority in both chambers. Two districts were deemed competitive at the outset, but have largely shown themselves to be one-party strongholds.
Pinal County-based District 8 elected a Democratic senator and two Republican representatives in its first two elections. But since then, the GOP has controlled all three of the district's seats.
And District 6, which runs from Flagstaff through the non-tribal parts of Gila and Navajo counties, was dubbed competitive when it was drawn, but has never elected a Democrat. The AIRC must abide by five other criteria besides competitiveness — equal population, the Voting Rights Act, compactness and contiguity, respect for geographic and political boundaries, and respect for communities of interest, a catchall term that encompasses any group of people with shared concerns or needs.
Those requirements often conflict with each other. Because of federal mandates, the population and Voting Rights Act requirements generally take precedence. Colleen Mathis, the independent chairwoman of the previous commission, said she would've loved to see more competitiveness on both maps, but there are other criteria to consider.
Competitiveness is more difficult to achieve in the legislative map than on the congressional side because there are fewer people to work with. And though Mathis views the criteria as equal before the law, they can't actually be applied equally. To comply with the Voting Rights Act, the commission Mathis chaired began its work with the majority-minority districts.
Andi Minkoff, one of Lynn's Democratic colleagues from the commission, believes that the original commission could have done more to create competitive districts.
Minkoff was a self-described "broken record" on the issue of competitiveness and welcomed a judge's ruling striking down the legislative map on those grounds, though it was later overturned. It's a balancing act.
But the issue is that they all have to be taken into consideration," Minkoff said. Population inequality between districts can also make competitiveness more difficult to achieve, Lynn said.
In order to maximize minority voting strength the AIRC traditionally underpopulates majority-minority districts, which Lynn said creates a greater imbalance in favor of Republicans in the other parts of the map.
If the current commission wants to emphasize competitiveness, it has one potential advantage that its two predecessors didn't. At least two Republicans are believed to oppose the voucher expansion; their votes would be enough to kill the bill, since Democrats are united in opposition. The bill also includes money for transportation grants that would be used to reimburse parents for the cost of getting their children to school, and a bill that would penalize school districts if they allow curriculum that seeks to uphold one race, sex or ethnic group as superior to any other.
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