By Michael Bryan According to a Federal indictment and local news outlets, a Green Valley couple, James and Karen Marshall, voted once too often in the recent Presidential election. They re-registered as permanent Arizona citizens and voted here, but also voted in their old domiciliary state of Kansas. The couple claim it was a mistake, … Read more
by David SafierYesterday I wrote about the Supreme Court decision to kick the ELL funding question back down to the federal court, and I mentioned that Howard Fischer had left an important fact out of his article in the Star: it was a 5-4 decision with the usual conservative-liberal split. Leaving that out left the … Read more
by David SafierI'm a little late with this post, but I was out of town when the Supremes decided Arizona isn't obligated to spend more money on ELL education. Howard Fischer's story on the decision in the Star is basically accurate. The Supreme Court sided with Horne and said the federal judge was wrong in … Read more
by David SafierIf you haven't gotten enough info already about the upcoming counting of the RTA ballots, or you want to hear the story from an Election Integrity perspective, Brad Friedman of BradBlog just posted an exhaustive discussion of recent events, from Goddard's taking the ballots to Phoenix to the politics of choosing observers, and … Read more
by David Safier Just when you thought it was safe to stop thinking about vouchers in Arizona after yesterday's State Supreme Court decision that they're unconstitutional, comes this: Ryan said there is a way to make the vouchers legal: persuade voters to amend the constitution to alter or repeal the ban. That may be the next … Read more