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Arizona voters will have several ballot measures to consider when they receive their November ballot. Among them is Proposition 140, which if passed would end partisan primaries in the state and give independent voters and candidates level footing in the elections process.

The 2024 presidential election is considered extremely tight and much like the 2020 election will be decided by less than 100,000 votes in a small handful of states – if polling is any indication of the state of the election.

The nonpartisan voting reform group FairVote released a new report Monday that shows that 70 major party statewide and congressional candidates in the 2024 primary cycle advanced to the general election with less than 50% of the vote. 

In the United States, elections–and the governments they produce–are lagging indicators of public sentiment. Elections simply provide a quantitative measure of what the voters believe. The governments that emerge from elections merely establish order and discipline with respect to those policies and approaches that have already been emotionally and intellectually pioneered and adopted by the American people.

Close and contested elections are a part of American history, and the upcoming presidential election will likely continue this tradition.

La carrera por el Distrito 36 de la Asamblea de California se distingue como una competencia cerrada entre el republicano Jeff Gonzalez y el demócrata Joey Acuña, Jr. AD36 es un distrito diverso que incluye áreas urbanas y vastas zonas rurales, lo que lo convierte en un campo de batalla único en las próximas elecciones. El distrito abarca todo el condado de Imperial y una gran parte del condado de Riverside, incluyendo áreas en el este y noreste del Valle de Coachella.

The race for California’s Assembly District 36 is shaping up to be a close contest between Republican Jeff Gonzalez and Democrat Joey Acuña, Jr.

With the race to Election Day entering the homestretch, the Harris and Trump campaigns are in a full out sprint to reach independent voters, knowing full well that independents have been the deciding vote in every presidential contest since the Obama era. And like clockwork every election season, debates are arising about who independent voters are, whether they matter and even whether they actually exist at all.

The 2024 Arizona ballot will feature a complete overhaul in how elections are conducted in the state with Proposition 140. However, while the measure aims to create a fairer process, some propositions would have an opposite effect.

Six states plus the District of Columbia will have measures on their November 5 ballots that, if passed, will reform the way public officials are elected in a way that offers more choice to all voters, regardless of political affiliation.