Adam Dorsey Driggs is an American attorney,politician,and as of 2017,a judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona. Driggs previously served in both chambers of the Arizona State Legislature.
Karen Fann is a former Republican member of the Arizona Senate,representing Arizona Legislative District 1. Fann became President of the Arizona Senate in 2019,and served until 2023.
Martín J. Quezada is an American politician who was a Democratic member of the Arizona Senate serving from 2015 to 2023. He is also a member of the Pendergast Elementary School District Governing Board,serving since 2011. He was previously a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015. Quezada is also an attorney in private practice,and has served his community in a number of different roles. He previously served as a research analyst and policy adviser to the Arizona state house Democratic caucus.
Warren Petersen is an American politician and a Republican member of the Arizona Senate representing District 14 from January 9,2023. He serves as President of the Arizona Senate. He formerly was a State Representative,also representing District 12. He was elected by his peers to serve as Majority Leader from 2018–2019.
Phil Lovas is an American politician and formerly a Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives representing District 22. Lovas served consecutively in the District 4 seat from his appointment by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors February 21,2012 until January 14,2013,to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judy Burges to take the Arizona Senate District 4 seat.
David Livingston is an American politician and a Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives representing District 28. He previously served in the Arizona Senate representing District 22 from 2019 to 2023. He also served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. During the 52nd Legislature of Arizona,Livingston was the House Majority Whip. Livingston announced that he was running for State Treasurer in 2022,but withdrew before the primary.
John M. Allen is an American politician and who currently serves as the County Treasurer for Maricopa County. A Republican,Allen was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives representing District 15 from January 2013 until 2021. Allen previously served non-consecutively from January 2001 until January 2005 in the District 7 and 11 seats.
Michelle Ugenti-Rita is an American politician and a former Republican member of the Arizona State Senate representing District 23 from 2019 to 2023. She previously served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Ugenti served consecutively from January 10,2011 until January 14,2013 in the District 8 seat. She was a candidate for Secretary of State of Arizona in the 2022 election,but lost in the Republican primary.
Sally Ann Gonzales is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Arizona State Senate representing District 20 since January 9,2023. She previously represented District 3 from 2019 to 2023,and also served in the Arizona House of Representatives representing District 3 since from 2013 to 2019. She previously served consecutively from January 10,2011 until January 14,2013 in the District 27 seat,and non-consecutively from January 1997 until January 2001 in the District 20 seat.
Eddie Farnsworth is an American politician and a former Republican member of the Arizona State House of Representatives and Arizona State Senate. Farnsworth previously served in the House consecutively from January 10,2011 until January 14,2013 in the District 22 seat,in the District 12 seat from 2013 to 2019,and non-consecutively from January 2001 until January 2009 in the District 22 and District 30 seats. Farnsworth served in the State Senate representing District 12 from January 14,2019 to his retirement in 2021.
Carl E. Seel is an American politician and a former Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives representing District 20 from 2013 to 2015. Seel served consecutively from January 2009 until January 14,2013,in the District 6 seat.
Kimberly Yee is an American politician serving as the 45th Arizona state treasurer. She is the first Asian-American woman elected to the Arizona State Legislature.
Cris E. Dush is an American politician. A Republican,he has been a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate since 2020,elected from the 25th District. From 2014 to 2020,Dush was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,elected from the 66th District,which then encompassed Jefferson County and Indiana County.
Anthony Kern is an American politician and a Republican member of the Arizona Senate,representing District 27 since 2023. He previously represented District 20 in the State House of Representatives from January 5,2015,to January 11,2021.
Venden "Vince" Leach is an American politician from Arizona. A Republican,he was a member of the Arizona State Senate from 2019 to 2023,representing District 11. From 2015 to 2019,he was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives representing District 11. Leach won the race for Arizona state senate from Legislative District 17 in the 2024 Arizona Senate election.
The 2020 United States presidential election in Arizona was held on Tuesday,November 3,2020,as part of the 2020 United States presidential election,in which all 50 states and the District of Columbia participated. Arizona voters chose 11 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Republican President Donald Trump of Florida and his running mate,incumbent Vice President Mike Pence of Indiana,against Democratic challenger and former Vice President Joe Biden of Delaware and his running mate,United States Senator Kamala Harris of California. The Libertarian nominees were also on the ballot. This is the closest presidential election in Arizona history,surpassing the previous closest of 1964,in which Barry Goldwater won the state by just under a single percentage point.
Frank Carroll is an American politician and a Republican member of the Arizona Senate representing District 28 since January 9,2023. He was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from 2019 to 2023,representing House District 22. Carroll was first elected in 2018 to succeed State Representative David Livingston,who instead ran for State Senate.
The 2018 Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction,concurrently with the election of Arizona's Class I U.S. Senate seat,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The 2022 Arizona Secretary of State election was held on Tuesday,November 8,to elect the next Secretary of State of Arizona. Incumbent Secretary of State Katie Hobbs declined to run for a second term,to instead run for governor. Primary elections were held on August 2,2022. Democrat and former Maricopa County recorder Adrian Fontes defeated Republican representative Mark Finchem by 4.8%.
The 2021 Maricopa County presidential ballot audit,commonly referred to as the Arizona audit,was an examination of ballots cast in Maricopa County during the 2020 United States presidential election in Arizona initiated by Republicans in the Arizona State Senate and executed by private firms. Begun in April 2021,the audit stirred controversy due to extensive previous efforts by former president Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the election,and due to assertions of rule violations and irregularities in the conduct of the recount,leading to claims that the audit was essentially a disinformation campaign. In June 2021,Maggie Haberman of The New York Times and Charles Cooke of National Review reported that Trump had told associates that based on the results of the audit,he would be reinstated as president in August 2021.
