ballot initiatives

Three proposals seeking to overhaul how citizens get initiatives onto the ballot have been met with mixed results – one was overwhelmingly defeated, while the other two are ahead.

Among the winners was a measure that limits the interest on medical debt.

Arizona voters who began mailing in their ballots after simply signing and dating the envelope in recent weeks might be doing so for the final time with that process.

Supporters say Proposition 129 would make the process more accessible for voters as it would simplify what could otherwise be complicated, multifaceted issues. However, critics see it as another attempt to increase the Legislature’s power at the expense of voters this fall.

Fire officials say the proposition on the November ballot could help improve response times in fire districts across Arizona.

An Arizona judge who ruled that a voter initiative rolling back Republican-backed election law changes and expanding voting access qualified for the ballot has revised his decision.

Proponents of three voter initiatives who each turned in hundreds of thousands of signatures last month to qualify them for the November ballot are trying to beat back legal challenges that could prevent them from going before voters in November.

Advocates for reproductive rights in Arizona say they’ve failed to collect enough signatures to enshrine abortion access in the state constitution.

The Arizona Court of Appeals says a 2017 law that makes it a crime to pay people for each signature they collect to qualify voter initiatives for the ballot violates the First Amendment.

State prosecutors have indicted Arizona’s largest petition gathering firm, alleging the company commissioned by the Proposition 208 campaign illegally…