“We are the 90 percent.” 

“We are the 90 percent.”

The Town of Marana’s election season has officially arrived. Beginning last Thursday, the Pima County Recorder’s Office began to mail out ballots to approximately 20,000 registered voters in town. 

Marana will hold its first all-ballot-by-mail election beginning with the March 12 primary. The Pima County Recorder’s Office will send ballots by first-class mail to all registered voters beginning Feb. 14. Signatures on all returned ballots are verified by the County Recorder’s staff, which has at least 10 years of experience with verification and is trained by a forensic document examiner every two years.

For information about polling place and identification requirements, contact the Pima County Division of Elections at 3724-6830, or visit their website at www.pima.gov/elections.

For information about polling place identification requirements, please contact the Pima County Division of Elections at 724-6830, or visit their web site at www.pima.gov/elections.

With only 42 days left until the 2012 general election, Secretary of State Ken Bennett offered a series of other election related numbers: 16, 14, 9 and 1. Sixteen days until early voting begins; 14 days left to register; 9 cases of suspected voter fraud; and 1 every single vote counts.

Jo Holt, a Democrat, is new to the political stage, but feels it’s time for a newcomer to take the reins in the State Senate for Legislative District 11, formerly known as District 26.

On Tuesday, Arizona voters will be voting on the primary candidates they want to see move on to the General Election, and based on early numbers, many residents have already spoken.

NRA protectors out quickly

We are a society reliant on convenience, and judging by the increasing number of mail-in ballots being processed by election offices across the nation, voting is no exception.

Sun City blood drive coming

Five candidates are competing to become the supervisor for District 1 in Pima County after current supervisor Ann Day steps down later this year.

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor spoke to local business leaders Thursday as she launched a voter engagement initiative in Pima County.

The latest voter registration figures are out and according to Secretary of State Ken Bennett, Arizona has 3,145,973 registered voters, a decrease of 5,642 since the last report in March.

Pima County Recorder Ann Rodriguez announced last week that her office has begun to mail out new voter notification cards to all registered voters in Pima County. This mailing process to notify all voters will take a little over a week to complete since more than 465,000 cards are being mailed. Ms. Rodriguez anticipates that all cards will be mailed by July 3.

Williams should show his own maps

As a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, I would like to express my thoughts on the Independent Redistricting Commission.  For those who do not know, Prop 106 was a voter approved ballot initiative that was passed in 1998 putting the redistricting authority into the hands of an independent commission.  The heart of the initiative was to create an independent body that would act in a non-partisan nature. 

Most reporting about the current redistricting plans for both the Arizona legislature and the nine seats in the U.S. House put forward by the Independent Redistricting Commission failed to cover the system’s obvious flaws.

Pima County Recorder F. Ann Rodriguez would like to remind voters that today at midnight is the cut-off to register to vote in the Nov. 8 elections, which include the City of Tucson general election as well as elections in six area school districts, including Marana and Flowing Wells.

Thursday, Aug. 25

OVBC to host ‘picnic' meeting on July 7

Marana voters will be deciding two issues in the May 17 General Election, with the town looking for approval to ratify its General Plan, and Trico Electric Cooperative, Inc. seeking renewal of its franchise agreement.

March 17 meeting to detail Copper Creek kindergarten registration

Marana, OV reschedule joint meeting for Feb. 9