We have now witnessed the national outrage when the referees of a professional football game decided the contest in favor of the wrong team. What will our nation do if the wave of voter suppression laws in Republican-controlled state governments actually keeps millions of voters from choosing their leaders? If the Romney/Ryan ticket actually won the popular vote in states that kept opposition ballots from being cast, will the thin fabric that holds this country together withstand the strain?

A Latino civil rights group is asking federal appellate judges to overturn a lower court ruling upholding Arizona's voter ID requirements.

Arizona, already at odds with the federal government and civil-rights groups over immigration, is adding voter ID and the Voting Rights Act to the disputes.

It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon in bustling downtown Tempe, and Tim Pomeroy is relaxed at a coffee shop reading a newspaper. In terms of East Valley politics, he sits at the crossroads — the place where urban liberalism runs head first into suburban conservatism.

It’s a sunny Thursday afternoon in bustling downtown Tempe, and Tim Pomeroy is relaxed at a coffee shop reading a newspaper. In terms of East Valley politics, he sits at the crossroads — the place where urban liberalism runs head first into suburban conservatism.

The media have teed up the issue of voter fraud nicely. On the one hand, we’ve been repeatedly told that, try as they might, no journalists can find any evidence of voter fraud. The local Cronkite Center chimed in with a well-publicized report claiming that voter impersonation, and by extension voter fraud, is pretty much nonexistent.

LAS VEGAS - The message behind a short-lived but highly publicized ad in Nevada was clear: Latinos, stay home.

Election Day holds tremendous importance in our country, not just as the day when we vote our leaders into office, but as the symbolic cornerstone of our democracy. It is a day when all our voices are heard. No matter what you look like, how much money you make, your family’s background, or how old you are, we all have an equal say on Election Day. The openness and fairness of our voting process is what makes America the leading democracy in the world.

In an attempt to alleviate rampant voter fraud discovered in previous elections, the state of Texas passed a new voter ID law in 2011, which the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) brazenly blocked on Monday because it claims the law would disenfranchise minority voters.

Arizona, already at odds with the federal government and civil-rights groups over immigration, is adding voter ID and the Voting Rights Act to the disputes.

This election year and next will define the direction this nation should take for its future. It is imperative, that we the voters correctly choose leadership, not based on the grounds of one’s political loyalty, religion, intolerance, or ignorance of facts, but whose policies best fit our nation. This country hasn’t been this divided since the pre-Civil War era.

The Maricopa County Elections Department plans to spend about $30,000 for television and print ads to correct possible misperceptions among some Spanish-language voters about the date for the Nov. 6 general election.

Good news on the First Amendment front recently came from, of all places, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

With a last minute surge of new voters, record foreclosures uprooting families and a historic presidential election hanging in the balance, hundreds of poll monitors will be in place Tuesday to ensure that everyone who's registered is able to cast a ballot and have it counted.

Efforts by Arizona Republican lawmakers to overhaul the early voting process and fight election fraud have drawn criticism from Democrats and civic groups who fear the proposed changes would limit turnout among the state's growing Hispanic electorate.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio alleged Thursday that a national community activist organization is using federal and state funds to fight his efforts to enforce immigration law.

Kudos to John McCain! And kudos to the bipartisan group of attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia who recently filed an “unsolicited brief” with the Supreme Court, asking them to “reconsider” it’s decision in the “Citizens United” ruling it handed down in 2010.

Saying they want to promote voter turnout, a Senate panel voted Monday to force cities and other local governments to have their elections only in even-numbered years — and only on two specific days in those years.

“$50.8 million for one player and the Cardinals can’t afford to build their own stadium? I’m not a bit sorry that I voted against them here in Mesa.”

CHICAGO (AP) — Gone are the days when young voters weren't taken seriously. In 2008, they helped propel Barack Obama into the Oval Office, supporting him by a 2-1 margin.

“The snowbirds are returning and so are the unkind, immature, and unrealistic comments by some East Valley residents. Age happens. Just look around at your grandparents.”

Three years ago, in the wake of a new Arizona law aimed at those in the country illegally, tens of thousands converged on the Capitol with a message: Today we march, tomorrow we vote.

Regarding that "scathing" Department of Justice report being used as a club against Sheriff Arpaio, isn't this the Department of Justice, under Eric Holder, who attacked SB1070 before he had even read the bill?