Advertise with Googlier.com top 2 | Arizona Capitol Times https://azcapitoltimes.com Your Inside Source for Arizona Government, Politics and Business Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:28:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.11 https://azcapitoltimes.com/files/2023/05/az17.jpg top 2 | Arizona Capitol Times https://azcapitoltimes.com 32 32 43761567 Open Government Committee sues to put top-two initiative on ballot https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/08/24/open-government-committee-sues-to-put-top-two-initiative-on-arizona-ballot/ https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/08/24/open-government-committee-sues-to-put-top-two-initiative-on-arizona-ballot/#respond Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:22:02 +0000 https://azcaptimes.wpenginepowered.com/?p=49901 Supporters of a proposed initiative to create a “top-two” primary elections system allege that Maricopa County election officials improperly invalidated hundreds of petition signatures and are going to court in a bid to get the Open Elections/Open Government Act on the November ballot.

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