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A Maricopa County judge rejected Recorder Justin Heap’s request to immediately block the Board of Supervisors from overseeing a third-party audit of the county’s voting systems. Heap, who is suing the ...

PHOENIX – In a ruling issued Thursday, an Arizona judge rejected Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap’s request to stop an election system audit authorized by the Board of Supervisors (BOS). Heap, a ...

Maricopa County officials say their new ballot tabulating machines can count roughly 8,000 ballots per hour. Machines used in previously election cycles could only count about 3,000 per hour. The ...

Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan is pushing back against claims from an audit that suggests the Sheriff's Office has significantly overreported the costs associated with complying with a federal ...

An audit found the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office mislabeled over 70% of the spending it said was related to a racial profiling case. The audit concluded the Sheriff's Office used the civil rights ...