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Arizona’s high court says the biennial election rulebook that tells local elections officials how to implement state law doesn’t have to follow the standard rule-making process, reversing an appellate ruling that possibly invalidated the rulebook created in advance of the 2024 election. The Arizona Supreme Court issued an order on Thursday, reversing a March decision from the Arizona Court of Appeals which ruled that Secretary of State Adrian Fontes violated the Arizona Administrative Procedures Act when he didn’t allow enough time for public comment on the 2023 Election Procedures Manual. Caitlin Sievers, Arizona Mirror.
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Who Pays for Election Administration?
The Division of State and Local Responsibilities
Julie Hochsztein, Research Fellow, and April Tan, Policy Lead
Center for Election Innovation & Research
States and local jurisdictions share responsibility for conducting U.S. elections, including paying for expenses associated with election administration and voter registration. However, the division of these funding responsibilities across (or even within) states is often not clear to policymakers, the public, or election administrators. This leads to misunderstandings about who pays for what aspects of election administration.
These misunderstandings can have significant real-world consequences, with election administrators sometimes left scrambling for funds as policymakers and courts make important decisions based on flawed assumptions about election finance overall and specific election expenses like voting machines, training, polling places, and ballots.
To better clarify funding structures in election administration, the Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR) recently released a report detailing which level of government was responsible for various types of election expenses in the administration of statewide general elections in November 2024.
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